A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET ........ BUT A SKUNK NAMED ROSE STILL STINKS!!!

''Millions call themselves by His Name, it is true, and pay some token respect to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choices he makes day after day throughout his life." - A.W. Tozer (The Pursuit of God)

Throughout my life if people would have asked my religion, I would have told them I was a Christian. I thought that being a Christian only meant that I believe in Jesus, however the true definition of Christian is Christ-like one, and that I definitely was not. The world is filled with people who call themselves Christian, yet don't exhibit any traits of the Savior.

I don't think that it's their fault!

I believe that the enemy has infiltrated the church for so long, and to such a depth that religion has become only a notion of verbal confession and nothing beyond! It's time we take Christianity back, and make it what it was meant to be! We, who call ourselves Christians, must be the light of the world! We must exhibit the kind of love, peace, and joy that the average person in this world searches their entire lives for, to no avail! We must be the race who rather than picking out the dirt in others, picks out the gold! We must learn to love our brothers and sisters in such a way as to surpass all judgments and stereotypes, and move straight to honoring them! We must stop letting our situation, our circumstances, and those around us dictate how we behave and what kind of day we will have! We must seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and not plug Him in where, when, and if He fits! We must stop trying to categorize our lives by level of priority (ie. God then family then business...or family first....) and realize that our lives were created to be in 24/7 communion with our Creator!

 It is not about putting God first,

it's about making Him our everything!

He must not only be our Sunday obligation, our fall guy in times of trouble, or the one we blame when things go wrong! This is a call to action, and it's not about doing!
 It's about BEING! In the words of the US Army, "Be all that you can be!" God's army is not a group of weak-willed, struggling, confused, anxious, suckling babies! We are powerful beyond measure! We are created in the image of the One who spoke everything that exists, into existence! We are co-heirs with Christ, called to do all that He did while He was on the earth, and greater! We are supernatural! Rise up and shine the Light that causes the darkness to flee! Take what's been given to you and run with it! Get to know your Father, that you may know yourself! Spend time in the Word, not because you have to, but because you get to and because it defines you! Don't let anyone or anything defy the completely clear conscience that heaven went bankrupt to give you! Set your mind on things above, not things below, because we are seated in heavenly places! Run with me church!
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