If You Believe God Is Real You Will...

Uncomfortable
When revolutionaries start talking about their ideas people start getting uncomfortable. Usually the people most uncomfortable are the people in power and those enjoying the current state of affairs, both these groups have a vested interest in perpetuating the status quo. But there are always people on the fringes, people who are unsatisfied, people who think that there should be something more to life. Whether a movement is political, cultural or spiritual, these groups quickly become apparent whenever a revolutionary shows up. When William Willberforce started talking about abolishing the slave trade in the United Kingdom, a lot of people got uncomfortable. He fought for abolition the rest of his life and only saw the results of his work shortly before his death. When Dr. Martin Luther King jr. showed up in Washington in 1964 to have one of the largest rallies in Washington's history a lot of people were uncomfortable, they were so uncomfortable they wanted him dead, they got their wish but not before he had sparked one of the most transformative movements in American history - the civil rights movement. But there is a far more important revolutionary movement that all too many people have missed. It is more powerful than Democracy, more demanding than Tyranny, it requires more sacrifice than Communism, it is more dominating than Sharia law and is more liberating than Anarchy. It is total surrender to the King of the Universe, the greatest revolutionary who ever lived - Jesus Christ. Concerning the nature of the Lord Jesus' reign, Napoleon said: "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him." Are you among the millions that would die for Him? They exist, but I think the overwhelming majority of them live in China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and the hundreds of other countries around the world where to be Christian means commitment, faithfulness, social stigma, being an outcast, public humiliation and often death.

What are the implications of believing in God?
I know a lot of people who say they believe in God but are actually atheists, I know because I used to be one of them. If you would have asked me as a teenager if I was an atheist I would have fervently denied it, but in reality I didn't think about God or base any of my decisions on what God thought. I was one of the people the Bible describes as having "no fear of God before their eyes" (Romans 3:18). Many practical atheists crowed churches on Sundays, they sing hymns, read Christian books and go to entertain themselves at Christian rock concerts which they call "worship events" and pay $35 dollars to get in but haven't ever put that much money in an offering box or ever considered giving that much money away to someone less fortunate. These people are practical atheists because their life shows that they don't trust God, they aren't committed to Him, He has never revolutionized their life. As Al Martin said: "The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that (for you) your not a Christian!"

What is True Christianity?
"True Christianity is an all-out commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Saviour is not looking for men and women who will give their spare evenings to Him or their weekends or their years of retirement. Rather He seeks those who will give Him first place in their lives. He looks today, as He has ever looked, not for crowds drifting aimlessly in His track, but for individual men and women whose undying allegiance will spring from their having recognized that He wants those who are prepared to follow the path of self-renunciation which He trod before them. Nothing less than unconditional surrender could ever be a fitting response to His sacrifice at Calvary." -William MacDonald