Fullness of Faith 

   “Why do you recite my commandments and profess my covenant with your mouth?  You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you.” (Ps 50: 16 – 17) 

   Unless our faith is the driving force of our life, the one thing above all else that guides us, we are floundering as Christians.

   Atheists often accuse Christians of being hypocrites.  They say we talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.  This is one of their main arguments against Christianity.  Sadly, in many cases they are correct.

   There is no such thing as a “part-time” Christian.  God does not want an hour or so of our time on Sunday mornings, He wants all of us, all day, every day.  In “Mere Christianity” C. S. Lewis wrote, “If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.”

   If there is one reason above all others that Christianity is suffering a loss in faithfulness and in numbers it is, in my opinion, because of the hypocrisy so many of us practice.  Our days are filled with earthly matters, while we limit God and His will to the little bit of time we spend with Him on Sundays.

   Jesus warned us very clearly, “Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” (Matt 7: 21).  If there is to be a revival of Christianity it must begin with Christians becoming a living proof of their faith, all day, every day.