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Discipleship Focus: Challenge
- Challenge: God does not merely wish us to be in relationship with Him as we are. He challenges us to grow, stretch, and transform as we take on the mantle of being His representatives to this world.
If you
ever want to feel challenge in your life, read the last half of Romans 2. You cannot escape Paul’s words without
feeling the conviction of the Holy Spirit upon you. Paul’s accusation against those who follow
God is spot on as much as we’d rather deny it.
As Brennan Manning beautifully says:
“The
Greatest Single Cause of Atheism in the world today is Christians, who
acknowledge Jesus with their lips but who walk out the door and deny Him with
their lifestyle. That is what the world
finds simply unbelievable.”
This is
really what Paul is talking about. We
have no
ability to judge one another. But we should
take every opportunity to judge ourselves!
Only God can determine whether another person’s soul will rest eternally
with Him or not. But I have every
invitation to look into my own life and discern where I am following my own
desires and not living in obedience to His will. I should be examining my life for sin as God
defines it.
The world
is absolutely looking. The world is
absolutely looking to see where I am hypocritical. Let’s face it; they really don’t have to look
that hard to see the evidence of sin in my life. So my task is to look where they look, see
the sin, and rise up to the challenge of wrestling against it and removing it
from my life. That’s the challenge of
Romans 2. Am I willing to actually obey
God, recognize my sin, confess it, and repent?
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