Today’s Help: 10/8/09

Real, true, honest faith in Jesus is more than capable to confront head-on the troubles, trials, confusions, anxieties, disappointments, and stresses of all worldly confrontations. Problem is most of us see the world through the real experiences of our everyday lives rather than through the blood-stained lenses of Jesus Christ and so we are often bewildered. So you say you are saved by the blood of Calvary's cross. Wonderful! But if you still view all things from only your perspective, then your salvation might only be a self-inflicted delusion. If you act Christian when only with Christians and differently with others then your profession may be suspect and you may be found only to play the part of an actor-a pretender. Examine yourself, reader, and see if there is reason sufficient to prove true conversion in your soul. Do not give rest to your soul until faith acts as the shield it is intended to be and love drives you to see this fallen world as it is through the blood-stained lenses of Jesus Christ.

"Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test?" - 2 Cor 13:5-6

"But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; [22] abstain from every form of evil." - 1 Thess 5:20-22