A Seeker's Heart

At this point in my blog, with many things having been said, I simply want to lay before you my posture in posting on this site. In no way do I seek to elevate myself or to present myself as having found every answer or every facet of God's Truth.

He is faithfully speaking, and I am making time to listen, but I know that this lifetime is not enough to learn everything. And I am continually in the process of being molded into the image of Christ.

I've had someone recently challenge me that faith must be evaluated by the service of the believer, rather than by a relationship with Christ. And, I believe God will have me address that argument more fully soon.

I have also been described as a "self-righteous" Christian who is setting an unattainable standard that will push the non-believer further from Christ.

For the moment . . . God has given me this response, and as it gets at the heart of why I am writing on this site in the first place, I desire to share it with you all:

Which response do you believe is more encouraging to those who consider coming to faith and who desire to please God in love?

"Welcome to this fold of broken, imperfect people whose only hope is to surrender to Christ, Who is the only Power that can work good in and through us!"

or

"Welcome to this fold. Now that you believe, get to work. It's a 'real pain in the you know what' sometimes. But, that's the proof that you mean business!"

Christ said His yoke is easy and His burden is light. And it is from the outpouring of His love into us as we have our relationship with Him that any "good fruit" is borne.

We must first know Christ in Himself and in us so that we can truly recognize and serve Christ in others.

"Are we trying to pat ourselves on the back again? No . . . Whatever we do, it is because Christ's love controls us" (2 Corinthians 5:12,14).

"Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own" (Phillipians 3:12).

I am not the greatest among anyone. I am a seeker of Truth and a sinner in need of greater and greater grace as God chips away at my "old man" to reveal a "new man" that brings glory to Himself.

Christ is the greatest among us all. And He is our only hope!