Ridgell's Originals

 I was talking to my granddaughter the other day and she made an interesting observation.  She saw lots of Tik Tok posts about worship and being kind and being like Jesus.  And she knows many of them.  She also knows that many them are not kind or nice.  They do not always treat people like Jesus.

So we got to talk about living the Jesus life.

Sometimes it is hard to line our life up with our faith.  Sometimes because people do not try.  Church and social media are separate from your school and social life.

Some people do try but need help to learn how to line up life with faith.  They are sorry when they do not reflect Jesus the way they should.

Then the discussion turned to worship and life.  Same kind of issues but we started thinking about how you need to live like what you worship.

If Jesus is who you worship, then you need to live like him.  If you worship other gods, you will live like they do.  So if your god is popularity or grades.  Or athletics, music, or drugs.  You will eventually live for those gods.

It is hard to follow Jesus.  Harder when Christians fail to live up to their calling.

Grace and forgiveness.  

Focus on Jesus, not those who claim to follow him.

Jesus not church.  Jesus not trendy religion.

And I am hoping the students that are struggling with this disconnect in their lives will grow in faith.

And praying the ones that are living intentional lives that do not reflect their social image will come to faith.

And that those trying to decide about Jesus will see him, will see authentic Christians.

Let's all do better.

# posted by Steve @ 5:00 AM