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Verse:Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry. —Psalm 34:14, 15
In 1979, upon finding that several of their Scrabble pieces were missing, two Canadian men invented their own board game. Trivial Pursuit was released in 1981 and by 2014 had sold more than 100 million games.* Christianity is anything but a trivial pursuit. Christianity is the unfolding experience of a person who has chosen Jesus as Lord and Savior. The nuances of the Christian life are learned over time by a connection with God through prayer and Bible study. Having the correct understanding of what it takes to make Christianity work is essential to a believer’s satisfaction with his or her Christian life and that person’s success as a follower of Jesus.
In the book Steps to Christ, the following advice is given: Consecrate yourself to God in the morning; make this your very first work.
Let your prayer be, “Take me, O Lord, as wholly Thine. I lay all my plans at Thy feet. Use me today in Thy service. Abide with me, and let all my work be wrought in Thee.” This is a daily matter. Each morning consecrate yourself to God for that day. Surrender all your plans to Him, to be carried out or given up as His providence shall indicate. Thus day by day you may be giving your life into the hands of God, and thus your life will be molded more and more after the life of Christ.† We are called to total consecration to God, complete dependence upon Him in the Christian experience.
Faith in God is a daily matter, not a one-and-done approach to religion.
When we surrender our plans to God, we turn our lives over to Him and declare our desire that God would not only guide our lives but also make us progressively more like Jesus. Christianity is no trivial matter. God asks for an entire surrender of the will to Him.
Nothing less than the power of God is needed to guide and lead in every aspect of our being. Christianity is a matter of eternal life and death and demands an entire heart commitment to God.