Are you in the faith?

Have you ever questioned whether you’re a believer in Christ or not?

Don’t think this as a bad thing necessarily. 2 corinthians 13:5 tells us, ” Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”

That being said, if you’re constantly questioning whether you truly are a believer in the faith, take this time to test and evaluate your life.

A Christian is not simply one who joins a Christian church, nor one who adheres to a certain moral standard in their life or the fact that one consistently reads the Bible. Just because someone prays a prayer at an altar, doesn’t mean they have become a true believer. Just because someone goes to church, sings worship songs, closes their eyes to pray, feels something in church, and memorizes the whole Bible inside and out, does not make them a believer.

You could go to a Dave Matthews Band Concert and experience some of the same things.

The pharisees were great scholars. They knew the Bible so well they could quote any verse to you on the spot. But Jesus called them white washed tombs. He also says in Matthew 23:15, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte (trans.convert a single believer), and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”

There were a few pharisees who were drawn to Christ, but the rest hated him and wanted him dead.

A reference for the fact that many people who go to church are not true believers.  Matthew 7:22-23 ”Many will say to Jesus in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then He will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”

The point here is if your life is dry and lifeless and you recall a time when you prayed “a prayer” something, but it never really changed your life; and you are continually drawn to seek out worldly things rather than Christ,…

Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you. Ask Him to change you. It’s not an emotional experience of crying while listening to soft organ music, it’s knowing in your heart and in your mind that Jesus has taken over your life. And sensing in every living breath the passion to spread His Gospel through your life. You’ll know if you have the Savior if you are drawn to Him daily, and you see Him as the irresistible God that wants you to take pleasure in Him.

Please respond with questions or comments. If something I said did not come across as legitimate, let me know. Thanks.