God's Not A Myth

If you're reading blog, you probably don't think God's a myth. But do we act like it? Are we Sunday-morning Christians and Monday-morning atheists?

In the heat of the moment, it's easy to react first and think second. Sometimes our reactions are anything but godly. At that moment, we've forgotten our redeemer lives. We've forgotten he's God even of that moment.

I'm not one to beat myself, or anyone else, up over the one-offs. You know, those single occurrences that don't match the general pattern of our lives. Not saying all our actions aren't important, we never want to give ourselves a “bye” or make an excuse. We want to keep a short tab on those one-offs – confess 'um and get forgiveness quickly and move on.

But I'm more concerned about patterns and habits. Is it our habit to dirty-joke with the guys at work, as if God didn't exist there? Is it our pattern to fly off-the-handle at our kids, spouse, co-workers, or subordinates in a rage? Are we living a lifestyle of sexual impurity? If we have ungodly habits, then, in that area of our lives at least, we're living like God's a myth.

Situational Atheism. We compartment life too much in the West. We've got our God box, our family box, our work box, just to name a few. And we think if our God box is the most important box, we're good. But God doesn't want to be the most important box in our life. He wants to be the most important thing in every box.

Let's invite him into every single area of our life, nothing held back. He gave it all for us, let's give it all to him. And in the end we'll find his love was worth it.