James Curtis

In my experience, there are two things that couldn’t annoy me more. Number one is when a fellow Christian believes that they are the best they can be. They think they have given their all to Christ. I’m sorry, but nobody can truly reach the potential God has set for us. As the Harris twins put it, “God has set a bar higher than we can reach so that way we’ll always be growing.” But this is about the other. The, perhaps even more annoying, second thing.

In my experience, the thing that annoys me way more than people thinking they have reached their potential is people who don’t even try to. I’ll be the first in line to say I fall way short of that line that God has set out for us. This isn’t the point. The simple fact of the matter is this: if our body’s the temple, and we’re supposed to be the light, who is to say that we’re ever really as good as we can be?

I, in no way, have my junk together. I’m a filthy, worthless sinner. I have so much sin in my life it’s unbelievable. But if through Christ, anything is possible; than I can chip away at my gigantic boulder of sin, and, with the help from God, turn it into a sculpture of purity, godliness, and bliss.

Recently, a Muslim girl in my class asked me what Christians meant by “The Holy Ghost.” I was truly touched. Although I, in no way, expected to convert this girl; this meant that I was being enough of a light that people knew who I was and what I was about. They knew they could come to me with a question that, in her words, “Nobody would answer for her.”

My point isn’t to brag. My point is to show the amount of great things that can occur when you actually apply yourself. I don’t know when, how, or why this happened, but somewhere along the line, something went horribly wrong. Sometime ago, somebody mistook worshipping with going to church on Sundays. This is such a huge folly, in fact, that it affects nearly everyone of us today. Too often do we feel we just need to get a “refill” and go about our business for the rest of the week. Being a Sunday Christian isn’t what God calls us to.

Basically, what I’ve found is this:

I’m a sinner who serves no purpose other than to please the Father.

I can never live up to those standards set by God.

Being a “Sunday Christian,” isn’t going to cut it.

We need to stop treating our religion as a hobby and start regarding it as a lifestyle.

Through Christ, anything is possible. The man who was able to take away sin when you reach the gates of Heaven, can take them away from you right here, right now on Earth.

There’s just one catch. You have to want to have it.

Lord, Jesus, you are the king of me. You reign over all the Earth. I want you in my life. I want you by my side. I want you to live in me. I want you to help take away my sin. I’m willing to put in the effort.