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Coming to say that you are a follower of Christ means more than just reciting a prayer and waiting for him to return. This is a waste of time if that is what we are doing. We are wasting the very things that God has given us. We are not using the very gifts that have been given to us, we are not good stewards. The life and the way of Jesus is much more than making a one time decision to follow God. It requires a daily decision to follow, to place our ego aside, and live in a place that we are moment by moment following the way of our Master. You see when we make a decision to become a follower of Jesus - a Christian - we are saying more than "I want to go to heaven." We are saying that we are committed to living life daily as Christ lived life. We are saying that we are going to follow the way that Jesus taught us. We are saying more than we are going to change the world through moral behavior and the preaching and shaming of sinful behavior. We are saying that we will live a life of love, forgiveness, and compassion - just like the one we have said is now our master. This is a daily way. This is a moment by moment way to conduct ourselves in relationships. This takes more than just saying that we are "Christian." This takes a daily working out of many things.

So don't lose a minute in building on what you've been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

2 Peter 1:5-9

We can be rewarded daily with the discipline of following the way of Jesus. Spending everyday in wonder, being kind, loving, being alert with how we are thinking and acting, having patience in out thoughts and in our circumstances, and cultivating spiritual understanding. Without these things we are doomed to live a half lived life that forgets that all of our sin is gone and we are loved. Our life is to be more than that.

Namaste'