I love to savor the most comforting taste that I’ve ever experienced. One way I do that is by eating and savoring a bit of bread as I think about and ponder a special moment in the Bible when Jesus shared bread and wine with His disciples shortly before He was crucified. The Bible also says, “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” God can be experienced not with the physical sense of taste but with the tasting of the heart through faith-based vulnerability.
God didn’t design Christianity to be forced on people. He designed it to win people’s hearts by humbly demonstrating Christ’s love. Christianity isn’t a club to beat people into better behavior. It’s spiritual awakening that supernaturally changes people from within. True Christianity is spread when hearts humbly open up to the risen Jesus and to one another.
Jesus showed how His followers are called to fight their battles when He laid down His life and asked God to forgive those who hung Him on the Cross. That’s faith-based vulnerability.
If Christians aren’t fighting with the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control) they’ve picked up the wrong weapons! Spirit-led Christians fight their battles with love and with all the rest of the fruit of the Spirit. The essential leadership that a Christian needs is the leadership of the Holy Spirit. No other leader is essential. (See Romans 8:14.)
No mere human being should ever be looked at like a god. America needs some humble voices like Martin Luther King’s, Mahatma Ghandi’s, and Mother Teresa’s who will kindly, yet boldly and courageously speak the truth in love.
True Christianity
Isn’t a Sunday show.
It’s the Spirit’s overflow
That rises up to show
The reality of Christ’s love.
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