
I heard something similar to the quote above in an online study I was listening to. I was struck by it. Am I living what I profess or what I actually believe? The issue isn’t how am I living. The issue is why am I not living what I profess? Why is my belief different than my conviction?
Example: I profess God loves me. My actions show: I believe that in certain circumstances. When I didn’t get my bonus last month at work because I was 2 students shy of qualifying for a bonus, my first thought was “why did you let this happen God?” I blamed Him. My loving God who I profess loves me. A loving God doesn’t punish or dole out bad things just because. What I believed was that God loves me but sometimes He doesn’t. Being disappointed and turning to God for a release of my disappointment is appropriate. Blaming God wasn’t. Blaming was me living out of my belief not what I profess to be true.
We profess God loves us. We profess He wants to be in relationship with us. We profess we are forgiven if we confess our sins and receive His Son, Jesus, as our personal Savior. We profess He works all things for good. These are all truths in scripture. These are all true! Do we live that way? NO! We just don’t but we can STRIVE to. Let’s strive to make our beliefs and professions line up. Let’s strive to live in the truth of God’s promises. When we fail (we all will), let’s dive deeper into that truth in scripture and next time we may not fail. We may start aligning our profession of truth with our beliefs, and therefore our actions.
I hope I haven’t lost anyone in my logic here. If I have, let me give this take away. If you profess God loves you, live every day, in every circumstance, like you are loved by the King of the Universe. If you do that one thing, everything else will fall in line.
Dream Big! Pray Big!
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.” ~ John 3:16