Double Life

 As recent news hit the stands, media hustle and bustled about the newest evangelist to become another one that sinned, not just any sin, but the secret sin. Wow, people eat that stuff up, not just the world, but Christians too. The talk of the church, how could this be someone living a double life, hidden from the world, hidden from the public eye and such sin, such depravity... The list goes on and we sit there and eat it up. They debate is he in heaven or hell wondering did he make it, however the real issue is not his soul, it is yours and mine.

How many of us go to Church on Sunday, open our bibles for the first time all week, the first time reading the word, first time praying, first time even speaking the name of God in a worship sense of the term? Wow did that hit a cord? That is a double life as well? 

We can look at someone else sin so easily and call it that, but when we look in the mirror it is harder to call our sin sin, because we are talking about ourselves. How many of us complain or do the very thing that God tells us not to do? Do we confess it as sin or do we just consider ourselves forgiven? God calls us to confess our sins, not just once, but daily. We are called by Him to repent, to turn from our sins, turn from them, not turn back to them. We can easily point out other peoples failures, but what about our own. 

This news that hit the stands, maybe it is hitting the stands for us to look at our own lives, not for us to look into this guy, but for us to say am I living the life God calls me to live every single moment of the day, whether someone is watching or not? Am I being the same person in front of my coworkers as I am in front of the people at church? Would I be acting like this if Jesus was standing right here with me? 

Maybe it is time to stop judging the guy that is dead, stop wondering if he is in heaven or hell and start making sure we are going to heaven and taking those around us with us, by living the life God calls us to live.