We don't workout enough. I don't mean going to the gym and getting "ripped" on tread mills, benches, and stair climbers. I mean that we don't work out our spiritual lives enough. Many of us are complacent spiritually. We take in every Sunday and even read our Bibles a couple times a week, but we're not working out our faith into our day to day lives. We become spectator Christians, watching the game from the couch, but not getting involved. In 1 Corinthians 8 the Apostle Paul says "All of us possess knowledge. This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows some things, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God". You see when you just possess knowledge, but don't put it into action, you become puffed up, you need to exercise this knowledge. This is what Jesus meant when he said that if we loved him we had to obey his commandments. It is so vital that we put into practice what we know, what we learn. If we just go to church every week, but never take it out into to our jobs then we are still just spectator Christians. I am writing this because I don't want us to be filled with knowledge of God, but never love the people of God. Earlier in 1 Corinthians Paul said "The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power" (1 Cor. 4:20) We have to get out of spiritual complacency, out of the idea of talking about our faith, and into the mindset of living out our faith. I tell my middle school students all the time that Christianity is not about doing or not doing something, but instead Christianity is about being someone. So who are you going to be?
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