I can hardly believe that I completed my BA in Communications almost six months ago, and it has been equally as long since posted anything on my blog. After watching the movie Julie and Julia today, I was inspired to get online and jot down a few lines.
The challenge for me is deciding what exactly I want to blog about. About what am I the most impassioned? Well, as strange as it may sound to some of you, I am the most passionate about God and how our relationship with Him is a direct reflection of our relationship with the people in our lives.
While some religions teach that God is very impersonal, my experience says otherwise. And when one truly studies the scriptures, God was anything but impersonal throughout the entire Bible, from cover-to-cover. In church yesterday, the preacher said, "Following Jesus will mess with your life." And when something messes with your life...well...that's pretty personal. And the truth is, it should mess with your life. It should change your behaviors and how you treat other people.
Up until recently, I was entangled in a relationship with a guy who professes to be a Christian, yet he treated me almost as if I had leprosy the majority of the time. It was a constant cycle of come here, go away. In so many words, he would tell me to go away, and then he would resurface almost as if to say, "Oh, I know I said to go away, but don't forget about me." Well, he treats his relationship with God the same way. He shows up at church periodically just to make sure God doesn't forget about him, as if that were possible anyway, and then he goes about living the rest of his life the same way he has always lived. One can only conlcude then that the man is not truly following Jesus, because it is not messing with his life. If he were, he would never have played the games with me that he did.
It is very discouraging to say the least, because this man is definitely not a good example of what it means to be a Christian, which is a turn off to the world.
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