The evidence

I spoke with a missionary to South Korea today.  She's been here in the country for years, has seen dozens and dozens of converts, but is beginning to wonder if they've really came to Christ.  These new converts go to Church, they tithe, they don't swear or sleep around, they do all of the "churchy" things....but when it comes down to it, there's no real change in their lives.  They haven't been fundamentally transformed by Christ.

I wonder how many of us are in the same boat as these Korean Christians.  How many of us have intellectually responded to the Good News, but our hearts remain just where they've always been?  We do all of the right motions, but there is no emotion, no feeling behind them.

A life with Jesus is not a casual, Sunday-morning affair.  It's something that affects you deeply, that touches your very core.  It affects not only your heart, but everything and everyone around you, as well.  Ask God to reveal the truth to you about your life.  Examine the fruit of your heart, look at the evidence of your life.  Is God in it?

2 Corinthians 13:5-10

 ⁵ Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? ⁶ And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. ⁷ Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed. ⁸ For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. ⁹ We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored. ¹⁰ This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.