Wadda Ya Mean, No?

You tell me you have good reasons for not giving your life to Christ? (Please excuse me for a moment while I get a grip on my exasperation.)Whatever objection is raised I have heard it before. I would like to entertain a few of them for you.

Christianity is for the weak. Well, of course! I am glad we could start off in agreement. Only Jesus can take the weak and foolish and win battles with them. Now you didn't think any rational person would surrender, to be saved, if they could very well do it themselves? The message I hear underneath this is that you believe you are the strong one. You believe you can save yourself.

It's a wicked world we live in. You have to be the tough guy so nobody will want to take you down. Honestly, there's a lot you just don't know. The biggest, baddest dude was once a terrified child, even if he does not remember it. God remembers. He knows that it is an issue of trust. He knows that each time you defend yourself with your anger, you place another brick in the wall of your prison, further away from Him, from what it is that you really need. Him.

I'd have to surrender my intellect to believe in fairy tales. That's putting it rather insultingly! The biblical narratives have more historical corroboration and material evidence supporting their validity than any other events of ancient history. Any "evidence" speaking against God and the Bible is only a parroting of opinion, flying in the face of the facts. Is is simply rebellion given voice. If it was really the truth you wanted, you would be doing the research, and reading the Bible. (Jesus said when you know the truth of who He is, it will set you free.)

I'm okay (a good person). By saying this, you are making a lie of God's standards, placing your own morality above His and making it clear you do not care what He thinks at all. What we do, is work for what is convenient for us, for what will get us what we want. God's perfection allows Him to accept suffering, even more than all the rest of us, to bring about the greatest good for us. How many people would you be willing to suffer for? Would you do it for someone who treated you badly?

If you will not willing surrender to the persuasions of gentleness and a shockingly exhilarating freedom, then you have become God's artwork despoiled, vandalized by the lies of pride. Humanity without Him is but an empty husk, a twisted shadow of the image of loving dominion (Jesus) that we were meant to be.