As I started learning tambourine dancing, I searched every now and then in Youtube about tambourine dancing. Once as I viewed the tambourine dancing of "Awesome in this Place", I can't help but irked on one person's comment. He said that though it's a nice presentation, it's just a waste of time for dedicating it to a God that doesn't exist. Why does he has to be such a crank about it? It saddened me every time I hear and read people's public confession of their unbelief on God.
I am not ashamed to confess to the world that I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian not because my father is a Minister nor because I grew up in a Christian family. I'm a Christian because I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior and I believe that the Bible is the Word of God. It is through the Bible that I came to know more of God and His wonderful plan for my life. The Bible is as high above all other books as the heavens are above the earth. Someone has said of the Bible: "Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe and practice it to be right".
Amidst my pretty tight schedules, I see to it that I read and study God's Word. I felt incomple if I fail to read in a day. I read about at least a chapter early in the morning, another chapter during lunchbreak ( I brought The Christian Life New Testament (KJV) Bible at school) and another chapter before going to sleep. God's Word is my spiritual food. When I fail to study God's Word, I stop growing. When I cease to grow spiritually, I started deteriorating immediately. When I stop climbing, I start slipping. I can never arrive spiritually in this life; there is always a higher plateau to be reached.
If reading God's Word is my spiritual food, PRAYER is my spiritual breath. It is a rare privilege to pray because it brings me into close fellowship with God, admitting my need to Him and my utter dependence upon Him.
I have full FAITH in God. I believe that God is working out His perfect plan in my life and because of this I can wait, endure and suffer. Having faith in God does not make anything easy but it does make all things possible.
Am I religious? Nope. All roads may lead to Rome but all religions do not lead to God and Salvation. There is only one way and that way is God's way and God's way is a person and that person is His Son, the Lord jesus Christ (John 14:6). Christianity is not a religion or philosophy but a relationship and lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus Christ did, instead of ourselves.
Am I spiritually matured? I can't really tell because it can't be measured by the amount of Biblical information and doctrines I know. I still have ups and downs in my spiritual life. I still have bundle of flaws and imperfections. But I'm grateful for these because they forced me to lean on God.
It's my daily prayer that my deeds must be consistent with my creed and my belief must be backed up with Christlike behavior.
