I was convicted today, not on felony charges or anything like that - worse.
A man I respect today made a brilliant point, one that I tried to address earlier with my "I Want To Join a Cult" article but I seemed to have missed it.
If you, as a Christian, are not seeing major life change from before you were a Christian, if you are maintaining a pattern of sin in your life, you don't believe in God.
That REALLY hit home. I mean, I have maintained a pattern of sin in my life that I know of. If I really believed in the God I claim to believe in, would I do that? No, I'd either love Him too much to maintain it, or, barring that, fear Him too much to maintain it. Probably both.
It's that half-Christianity I was talking about. The hypocrisy. You say you believe in God, you get saved, and then... nothing. Go to church every Sunday, in your t-shirt and shorts even, and you wonder why you're there. You're left shouting, just as you were before you turned to Him, "What else is there? What am I missing?"
I think it's about time, since I DO believe in God, that I start acting like it. Before it's too late.