Accountable

 

James 5:16“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Something we miss so often in the Christian community, well in any community, is accountability. Since when did it become wrong or a hurtful thing to hold someone to their word or claimed convictions? Yes, it needs to be done in a loving and respectful way, let’s not miss that. However, we just brush over it all and say “oh everyone does it” and then don’t evoke action or change, we don’t encourage one another. If done in a loving and respectful manner, this can be one of the biggest catalysts for change in our personal lives, communities, and eventually, world.

What We Ask of Him

1 John 5:14-15“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

This passage so often is taken out of context and twisted to say that whatever we ask of God in confidence we will be given. Missing one large part though, “according to HIS WILL”. Here’s a cool thought, the more we seek God and dig into Him, the more our hearts will be aligned with His and want what He wants, and therefore what we ask WILL (for the most part) be according to His will and will come to pass. Mind you it may look different than expected, but one of the coolest things about God, is that He’s God…His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts.

Faith=Belief that something is True

Hebrews 11:6“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Interesting that people say they have “faith” but don’t believe God is who He says He is, at all times, in all ways. We don’t truly have faith if we don’t truly believe God, now let me make it clear, it’s not wrong to question, God can handle all the questions you got, take Lee Strobel for example, devout atheist who searched and studied and wrestled with questions and with God, and finally came to a point where he personally thought himself foolish if he did not believe in God, and to believe in God, it takes faith. There will be an element of everything that will take faith to completely believe and for us to believe they are true. There is not a thing in the world that without at least an element of faith can be completely trusted by our human minds and hearts because we don’t know everything and even the most brilliant of minds are limited in wisdom and knowledge. Sometimes we need to stop complicating everything and have faith like a child.