belief

I recently just finished reading a book by Donald Miller entitled "Blue Like Jazz." The author had many many points that challenged me greatly which is always good, but there is one part that I absolutely can not shake. He is referring to a friend of his Andrew who is a simple person that is takes things really literal. Jesus said to feed the poor so every Saturday Andrew feeds the homeless on the sidewalk out of a make shift kitchen. 

Andrew made a quote to Donald Miller that I would like to share. He said "what I believe is not what I say, what I believe is what I do."

So like any normal human being that is searching to be better in life I began to examine myself, extremely harsh I might add. And after my examination I came to realize that there aren't as many things that I believe that I thought believed. 

I say that I trust God, but yet I find myself doubting the way things will turn out quite often. I say that he is my healer, but yet I take a doctors word over a promise. I say that I'm delivered, but yet I'm constantly afraid that I will fall into the same mess before. And to some of you reading this it may sound a little extreme or over the top, but if what I believe is not what I say, but what I believe is what I do then I'm really going to have to alter the things that I do. I will have to alter the things I say, the way I think, the way I act, the way my attitude may come off, everything!

I have decided that I do not want to known as just another christian that doesn't live any differently than the rest. I want my light to shine above the rest. Not for my own glory because that is not what I believe. I believe that God deserves everything that I have and I will give him nothing less than what he deserves.

//marcus s. beecham

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