Religious People

"Religious" people are very stubborn because they feel safe being religious and in control of their own destiny, or so they think. Even people who claim to be "Christian", are often "religious", they love their ritual and traditions refusing to let go of what is familiar to them even if the Bible says it is offensive to God.

The definition of "religion" is a system of rules, dos and don'ts that have little to do with true Christianity.

Those who have been born again are in love with the Savior, they care deeply what God wants.

Christ is the Door to All Things

When we say we believe Christ but negate much of what is in His word, not bothering to ask Him to show us truth, then we should admit that we really don't believe Christ, we merely mouth the words without an inkling of trust in our souls.

Trust will be evidenced in a desire to know the mind of Christ, to know His principles His way.

I remember those women's Bible studies I have attended many years ago as a new believer, something about them made me sick at my stomach. As I began to grow Spiritually and deeply seek the Word, I realized what made me so ill about those gatherings.


The leaders were telling their students to go home and read a passage of the Bible and come back next week to share "what that passage meant to them." I argued with the leader, adamantly, that we should be asking God to tell us what He meant by the passage, not read to make it fit our particular desires and hopes.

Of course in every case the teacher negated me, ignored me and one even asked me not to return to the study. Why was I so disliked? The answer was clear, most of the ladies were not interested in seeking God for His wisdom and truth, they wanted to make the Bible say what they liked, searching feverishly for the ooy-gooy feelings oriented message they wanted to hear.

I noticed that when I would tell them what God said and what He meant, they were not happy with that, they loved to share their own thoughts, it made them feel elevated, special and profound, when in fact they were sounding silly to anyone who knew what God was saying.

When we read the Word, our goal ought to be to seek God in prayer for the meaning, forgetting what the culture is teaching to find God's truth. Our culture is very wrong about many things in the Bible, we have been raised on a cultural Christianity for the past 70 years now. Once a culture gets something in their head, becomes comfortable with it, it is mighty hard to convince them of anything else no matter what the clear evidence.

If we are to understand God's Word, it is vital and necessary to pray before we read, desiring in our heart for God to give us the understanding. When we neglect this important step of seeking God, all we have to help us is our own mind that is full of the wrong that we were taught.

If we want to know truth we must be willing to let go of anything and everything we were taught to find God's truth. Telling God that we want only pure truth from His heart, only then will He open the doors of his mind to us.

John 10:9 ""I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."

Christ is the only way to heaven and the door to everything else too.