Daily writing prompt

What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?

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My best advice would be to honestly and sincerely answer this question. Have you settled for less than true Christianity?

True Christianity isn’t merely believing Jesus lived, was crucified, and rose in the past. It’s living those beliefs as present-day truth.

True Christianity is faithfully denying self-righteousness and self-reliance to make room for King Jesus to live and rule in and through you. It’s taking up your cross daily. It’s being continually aware of and led by Christ in you rather than by your own thoughts, feelings, desires, and opinions. True Christianity is total ongoing trust in and dependence on the presence and power of the risen Jesus in the present and in the future.

If you have settled for anything less than true, whole-hearted, life-changing Christianity, I’d advise you to seek God like never before. Humbly and sincerely ask Him to search your heart and show you anything that is keeping you from being continually aware of and fully surrendered to Christ living in you.

Then listen to Him speak to you through His Spirit speaking in and through your conscience. Obey what He tells you to do.

Begin to devour and absorb the Bible. Read it like it is a rope thrown out to a drowning man. Let its words burn within you. Humbly and faithfully do what it says, and it will grab hold of your heart and pull you into the presence and power of the risen Jesus.