Don't Let Your Faith Drift Away!
I've only been following Jesus for six years, but in that short stretch of time I have seen so many people walk away from him.
Some of these people were exposed to the gospel decades before I was born, professed faith in it, and fell away after years of church-going and apparent dedication to God. And others began and ended their journey with Jesus within the duration of my Christian life. Some of them were introduced or "reunited" (as they would say) to the gospel through me! I shared the truth with them, brought them with me to church, saw their hearts soften toward Jesus — I even saw some of them baptized! To then witness them subtly or violently pull back from Christ has been heartbreaking.
And dang it — it's been down right frightening!
If I'm honest, every time someone embraces Jesus with seeming sincerity and then throws him out with the bathwater, I wonder to myself, "Will this be me? Is it only a matter of time before I fall away, too? Is this life I'm living — this daily death to self — really sustainable for the long haul? Is my faith authentic?"
