Missing The Point
Acts 4:10-12, 2Tim 3:2-5
I walked into an office and there was a sign that read "Life without Jesus is pointless". And to
drive the message home, pictured was a pencil with an eraser on both ends. Simple yet effective.
You see some of us ARE missing the point. We have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. Our religion is our culture rather than our faith. We don’t know anything else, so we do what we know. We know how to profess Christianity. We know what to do and when to do it, so that we fit into our particular religious circles quite well. So well, in fact, it looks to others like we are the whole meal and the desert too. But we are missing the point because our religion is faithless. We have not recognized our need for a “Savior”. And if we have not recognized our need for a Savior, we cannot by definition be “saved”. No matter how “good” we think we are, we cannot be saved unless His spotless life is credited to us. But we don’t believe in His merits. We don’t receive Him as the way, the truth and the life. We believe it has to be harder than that. We don’t take Him at His word that He is ABLE to save us, if we just simply believed. Faith requires a personal relationship with Jesus, not merely a learned response. Faith is Finally Admitting I Trust Him.
