Action

My Christian walk takes doing and not just words, it takes action. Yes, I can go to church once a week, but does that build my relationship with Jesus Christ? No, it is a moment by moment walk with Jesus Christ that transforms me.

If I am to be like a child when it comes to being a Christian, lets think about how a child is. Can a children feed themselves, no they need to be fed, the parents make meals, provides for the child, instructs them in when they need to go to bed, brush their teeth, teaches them moment by moment. That child is just a child and needs to grow up in the understanding of what it is. The parent is the representation of what it means to be grown up. Just the same way as Jesus teaches us what it means to be a Christ follower, we need to learn from Him. It isn't just a once a week happening, it needs to be more, because just as a child, they need more time with the parent, then once a week. A child would starve to death if all they got was one meal a week, but yet as a Christian that is all some feel they need, is one meal a week.

It makes more and more sense to me why Jesus said we need to be like little children. We need to want to learn, we need to hunger for the truth. I remember when my son was growing up, he would ask me why does this work, why does that work, what is that for? How many times are we seeking the truth from God just like our kids sought the truth from us?

Can we do some simple calculations?
Brushing our teeth: 2 minutes, 2 times a day = 4 min. a day = 28 min a week = 1 day a year
Sleeping: 8hr a day, 56 hrs a week = 48.5 days a year
Going to Church: 1.5 hrs a week = 1.3 days a year
Reading the Bible: .5 hrs a day = 3.5 a week, = 3.03 days a year
Computer/Phone: 2 hrs a day = 14 hrs a week = 12.13 days a year (Probably low)
Praying???

Our Christian walk takes action, we need to invest our time into the truth of God, we need to be willing to read and it takes doing, it just doesn't happen. It is easy to think that I would have the desire to do it, if it was meant to happen, but the truth is, we do not have the desire to do it, because we are born into sin, we need to do it, because it is what honors God, not wait to have a desire. We need to act. That is so true in every area of our life, I don't feel like going to work, but I have to do it, so I must put action into it otherwise I will sit at home and do other things. In marriage we may not feel like it, but to honor our spouse, we must put action into the word love. This plays out in every aspect of life, without action we will grow apart from everything, grow further away from God and just the same way grow apart from our spouse, our kids, our friends, without action we are just a word.