I’ve just been listening to Michael W Smith's song, "Open Arms", and it is a good reminder of how we need to be as Christians. The lyrics go like this:

“Many people in the steeple, but no one leaves the walls. Quick to stand and speak all of their beliefs, quick to leave you if you fall. Tell me, where's the love, that knows no boundaries, tell me where's the love, yeah yeah. Open arms, we need to be open arms. Never judging, always loving, needs to be what we become. Lifting up the lost, showing them the cross, shining brightly like the sun.”

I love that song because it prompts us to examine our actions, or lack thereof, and to be honest about whether we are showing God's love to everyone, or if we are just pew-sitters. Putting our faith in action is what is required, as James put it:

“My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God's truth, don't write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.” (James 5:19-20 MSG).

In our current Home Group course on James, we are learning to be doers of the Word, and it is a series that is giving us all a “wake up” call. I am thoroughly enjoying it.

We can’t be baby Christians forever, as it says in Ephesians 4:14 - “No prolonged infancies among us, please... God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love.” (MSG)

So here’s the challenge, brothers and sisters, let’s go out and show God's love!

Written By:

Theresa Bosch

Intercessory Ministry DGFC
www.deogloriakzn.co.za