Your life?

I'd never really thought about the parable of soils and the thorny soil not speaking about Christians. Or that Jesus spitting out the lukewarm "Christians" signified that they weren't really followers. Have we just taught the opposite so that we don't feel so bad about ourselves when we don't measure up to the standard of Christ? Being a Christian, after all, does mean that you are a 'little Christ.' The interesting thing is that the early church didn't call themselves Christians. They were called Christians by the rest of the world because the lives that they lived. I'm not pushing legalism, far from it. Fruit on a tree does not give the tree life, but a dead tree will not produce fruit. Just like the act of baptism does not save us, it is merely "an outward symbol of an inward change." So to are our actions a symbol of the life within us.

Does this mean that we are always going to act as Christ did? I don't think so, or there would be no purpose to Christ's death. I do think, however, there should be a general direction pointing to Christ. How many of us live lives that are too important to sacrifice for our relationship with Christ? How would we react if He showed up on our doorstep and said, "Follow me." No explanation. No directions.