TODAY’S WORD FOR TUESDAY DECEMBER 13, 2016.
CAUSE
DEFINITION:
A person that acts or a thing that occurs so to produce a specific result; the reason or motive for some action.
I planted, Apollo watered, but God was causing the growth. I Corinthians 3:6.
Recently a television interviewer was walking down a street asking the public one person at a time a simple question. The question was, “Do you have a cause in life that is important enough for you to stand for?” The answers were unbelievable to us. They included: a visit to the local bar every night, to irritate the person that works with me, to go to at least one rock concert a week and to talk to people about climate change and control.
The answers showed how confused people are today and how they live for themselves only and care about no one else let alone God and eternity.
In a book called “The Age of Longing” you will read the story about an American girl who married a radical revolutionary in Paris. She had lost her faith at an American University, the little religious faith she had, and all that her parents had taught her concerning their religious faith and Judeo-Christian morals.
She was asked why she married him and she responded by saying that he was the first person she ever knew who believed in something strong enough to die for it. He had a cause to live for. She went on to say that even though she did not believe exactly as he does she was attracted to him because he had found a cause to live for.
Many people today are searching for a cause but do not know what they are looking for. A University student in Moscow was talking to an American Christian, as the story goes, about their faith. The Russian student said “You Christians say that you are going to win the world, but the facts are that we have done more in fifty years than you have done in 2000.”
The Russian student went on to say that there was a reason for what he believed and said, it is because you Christians are really not committed to your cause and we are. Therefore, we will win, you’ll see.
As a believer in Jesus, do you have a cause? Are you living every moment of your days for Him? Take the time to evaluate how committed you are to your Lord.
Malcolm Muggeridge, a well-known British author, journalist and media personality wrote, “It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God they believe in anything.”
It is the Lord alone who can give the faith to the spiritually ignorant that will allow them to be committed to a cause that is worth everything, yes even to die for, as did some of the disciples of Jesus and many others down through the ages. Salvation is God’s work of grace to those who choose to receive it. But how can they receive it if no one has made it their cause to tell them of it?
Our memory verse for this week is found in Colossians 2:6.
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.
Thank You, Father, that You have given me a reason and a purpose in life. Keep me ever strong in my faith and trust in You. Help me to never waver in taking a stand for the cause of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. Help me to always live totally committed in love to You.
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