Writing this blog has been hard for me. When I had the idea back in May, I just felt like I needed something to be challenged weekly in my relationship with God. I wrestled over doing it for almost 7 months. I wasn’t sure I could write things daily about my journey and there were some commitments I knew would be hard to apply. When I saw my friend Emily start her blog on reading the Bible daily, I was convicted that God had put this in my heart and I wasn’t acting on it. God wanted me to embark on this journey to a revolution to challenge me in my faith. To push me in areas of my walk with Him that I am afraid to go.
Some of the commitments have been easier to apply to my daily life. I can read my Bible, pray, go to church and serve in a church. But when it comes to stepping out of my comfort zone and talking to others about Jesus I get scared. Yeah, I can be bold on a blog or on facebook but when I am face to face with someone I shrink away.
The other day I was watching Grey’s Anatomy. There are a lot of things I disagree with morally about that show but I still catch it from time to time. Anyways, there was a young man(let’s call him Joe) brought in by his friend (let’s call him Dave) who was severely hurt. When they are about to treat Joe who is unconscious, it is made known that Joe has certain religious beliefs where he cannot receive any blood. Dave is shocked by this revelation and is talking to one of the nurses about it. Dave says that if this was really true in Joe’s life and Joe really believed it enough to die for what he believed would Joe keep it a secret. Wouldn’t Joe have at least told his friends?
I was pretty convicted by that statement. Am I telling my friends or am I keeping it a secret?
I have mentioned before that I have been reading Nancy Pearcey’s book Total Truth. She talks about how in society we tend to put our lives in 2 stories. We put science and facts on the lower story and then we put religion and belief in the upper story. She quotes Phillip Johnson who says “Even conservative Christians have so privatized their faith that they do not regard it as a source of knowledge but as merely theological ‘reflection’ on topics given by secular academia.” Nancy says this “If we aspire to engage the battle where it is really being fought, we must find ways to overcome the dichotomy between sacred and secular, public and private, fact and value – demonstrating to the world that a Christian worldview alone offers a whole and integral truth. It is true not about only a limited aspect of reality but about a total reality. It is total truth.”
So what is the choice? Keep living as we are living? Keep the truth to ourselves? Jesus says in John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Pretty bold words. Do we want a revolution? Its time to speak up.
101 Days to a Revolution 