What Really Matters?

One of the the lessons learned early in life (usually) is that there are things that matter, and things that don’t. I long ago realized that whether I wear a blue suit or a black suit doesn’t matter – at least in the long run, because there are not a half-dozen people in my life who can remember what I wore on a particular day – the next day. Most people forget what is “actually” said, and go with their version of the interpretation of what another person said, in almost any given conversation. And so, to a degree, most of what we say in the ordinary issues of life doesn’t really matter.

What does matter, throughout the entirety of our life, is who we are. Who we are almost always translates, interestingly enough, in what we wear and what we say in conversations.

I have long been convinced that ones’s commitment to the Church of Jesus Christ (I am not talking about one’s commitment to God, Truth, lifestyle, or denomination) is critical in the determination of our obedience to what is revealed in God’s Word. Perhaps it is quite simply that many or most uncommitted (to the Church of Jesus Christ) Believers are ignorant of the Scriptures candor in this matter. If that is not true (that ignorance is the issue), then we must assumed that disobedience is willful, and thereby a clear violation of the Father’s will. To avoid offending some, I will refrain from calling such violations “sin,” even though that is the correct word (hamartia). I see that as an issue that genuinely matters. It could be, and probably is, following “saving faith,” the most critical issue in genuinely spiritual issues.

In my World, the variety and scope of “reasons” (correct word: excuses) for lack of commitment to the Church of Jesus Christ are legion (innumerable, incalculable, abundant). I have never been comfortable with “reasons” for failure to be obedient. It is possible (feel free to substitute the word “certain” here) that God is not either.