Day 35- Why Am I A Christian?

I was reading the beginning of this article and the author of it is Bertrand Russell and it read:


"As your chairman has told you, the subject about which I am going to speak to you tonight is "Why I Am Not a Christian." Perhaps it would be as well, first of all, to try to make out what one means by the word "Christian." It is used in these days in a very loose sense by a great many people. Some people mean no more by it than a person who attempts to live a good life. In that sense I suppose there would be Christians in all sects and creeds; but I do not think that that is the proper sense of the word, if only because it would imply that all the people who are not Christians -- all the Buddhists, Confucians, Mohammedans, and so on -- are not trying to live a good life. I do not mean by a Christian any person who tries to live decently according to his lights. I think that you must have a certain amount of definite belief before you have a right to call yourself a Christian. The word does not have quite such a full-blooded meaning now as it had in the times of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. In those days, if a man said that he was a Christian it was known what he meant. You accepted a whole collection of creeds which were set out with great precision, and every single syllable of those creeds you believed with the whole strength of your convictions."

Wow this makes me question why I am a Christian. How many people do I know that are thinking they are Christians just because they are living a good life. They don't have convictions or beliefs, they just do the right thing and expect the title. However there is much more to it than doing what is right, it isn't even about doing that, although you do, it is about having the person hood of Jesus living inside of you and pushing out of you who He is. It is about getting so wrapped up in Jesus you get mistaken for who He is. It is letting yourself be bare before your world so that they can see the scars of where the Word has cut you and you bleed the blood that is pure. It is not only these things but being the consistent in an inconsistent world, a light to the world's darkness, a hope for those who are lost. We must be Jesus to our world, not by deeds, but by the indwelt person of Christ spilling out of our mouth. I pray this prayer every day so that my world doesn't guess whether or not I am His or not. I want to be set apart for this Divine purpose of His to win my world by allowing Him to work through me. Let it be so Jesus!