“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”
—-C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
As Christians, Christ followers, we are called to be hands on radical servants. As Christ fed the hungry, clothed the naked , and consorted with all manner of persons, we too must be willing to go where the opportunity for ministry presents itself. Ministry is inconvenient, and doesn’t come wrapped in neat little packages. Lewis urges us to our surrender to Christ seriously. That level of seriousness requires discipline and action that come from within the center of the soul.
Prayer- Loving Christ help me to see the heart of being a Christian, and follow it wherever it leads.
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