Thoughts, Life, Action

“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” Numbers 23:19

God isn't a theologian.

God doesn’t sit up in Heaven thinking deep thoughts about Himself. He is continually being who He says He is and doing things that are consistent with His nature. “… God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son …” (1 John 4:8-10). The truest definition of love is giving. God doesn’t sit around and think about what love is, rather, He embodies the essence of what love is by doing what love does—giving to another. We are Christians when we do what Christians do—when the fruit of the Spirit comes out of our life. It’s not when we believe Christian truths or sit around and think about Christian things that we demonstrate that we are Christians. It is when we allow the Spirit to transform us from within and we produce the fruit characteristic of the Christian life.

Believing means obeying. 

"... whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life …. whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life." (John 3:16, 36). Our heart, our mind and our actions are inseparably connected. Believing Jesus is God is the first step, but the first step and the second step are connected. “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:24-25). All our steps are connected to our life. As we become more like Christ, our life becomes more like Christ’s, we will walk more like He did. We will obey whatever we believe, and we will believe what we are obeying.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

It has been said the only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. We do not make ourselves extraordinary; we become extraordinary when the extra Holy Spirit comes inside our ordinary life. He changes both who we are and what we do. God wants to change more than our thoughts and beliefs; He wants to change our life. And as we allow Him to transform us, He changes our character, our habits and our actions.