Go Get A Life

If you're a devout believer in Christ, more than likely at some point in your walk with the Lord, someone has made the comment to you, "you need to get a life." You're not on the party scene, going to clubs. You're not dating anybody, no "romantic" interests. It doesn't seem like you do anything that represents "worldly fun." And more than likely you've heard the statement, "why are you always at church?"

Saints, if you've had to endure these comments, and deep down feel like at a certain level your "social critics" are right, be not discouraged. As Disciples of Christ we "do" have a Life. But in order for us to experience it and enjoy it, we have to know what it is.

Let me say very quickly that it was not God's intention for our lives to be consumed by "the ministry." Yes, all of us have a purpose. Yes, all of us have a calling. Yes, all of us have a divine assignment that is to be fulfilled before we leave this planet. But this divine calling is not our life. 

There are too many preachers, pastors and ministers of the Gospel that have operated under the misunderstanding that the ministry was supposed to be their Life. Wrong. That's why you hear of preachers talk about "burn out." That's why you see a lot of committed and dedicated ministers "fall" into some type of scandal or sin. Why? Because they've mistakenly made what God has called them to do their life. This is not the will of God.

Then you have people who have made their family their Life. Their ultimate devotion is to being available and accessible to their spouse and their children. This is noble and admirable, and definitely within the will of God. However, one's family is not supposed to be their life. Jesus made it clear, when asked about His family, that His definition of family was not restricted to the sociological "nuclear family" definition. Jesus said that those who do the will of His Father was His family (Mark 3). It's important to minister to one's family and fulfill the roles God has ordained us to fulfill. But the family cannot be one's life.

The Bible says explicitly that Christ is to be our life (Colossians 3). The reason why this is hard is because Jesus is Invisible. And we're so conditioned by the natural realm and the flesh, that we want something to be our life that we can relate to with our natural senses. This is where we do ourselves a disservice. The mystery is that life was never designed to be lived primarily at the natural level. It was designed to be lived at the supernatural level with the manifestation thereof in the natural realm. That's why God made humanity in His Image (Genesis 1). 

Remember, God is a Spirit (John 4). So the essence of man is spirit, which means the basis of our being rests in the invisible. We have to elevate our faith saints. We have to quit looking for security and reinforcement in the natural realm and begin to look for it strictly and solely in the spirit Realm in and through Christ. When we make this faith transition, then we will live out the words found in Colossians chapter 3: "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is our Life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in Glory." 

It's the glorious life in Christ that the Christian is supposed to have. That's the life that, once we enter it and learn to function in it, the world will envy and long for. So, go ahead child of God, put your trust in the Lord and "go get a life!"