Born.Again.Christian.

How can we talk on morality? It is not possible for us to set the standards for what is right and what is wrong, yet that is what we try to do every day. If one was to see into another's thoughts he would be disgusted with what he found. He would probably call that person every name under the sun, in his mind if not out loud. He would quickly conclude that this person is a hypocrite, depraved, maybe even perverted. Yet for those same private thoughts that flow through his own head he would say that they were 'understandable' or a 'mistake on his part' or because of 'human weakness'. He would easily justify his own thoughts because in himself he believes he is a decent fellow, whilst condemning somebody else for having the exact same thoughts. Here lies our conundrum. How could we, who have such a lack of morality in our own private mind possibly be a judge on what is right and what is wrong? We need to understand that the only way for morality to exist i...

The Lord commands us to evangelise, but we must make sure that we don't go out and preach the Word to try to earn God's favour, for there is only one way we can earn God's favour and that is through our faith in Him (Hebrews 11:6). We shouldn't go out because we feel like we have to in order to upkeep our relationship with God, or grow in Him, or earn rewards or brownie points or become a better Christian. We should go out and preach the Word because we want to. God looks at our motives (1 Samuel 16:7). If we don't want to spread the Word to others then there is a problem and we must look at our relationship with God and the love we possess to see how deep our love for the Lord really is, whether it is a self-centered kind of love or whether is is true selfless love.