To Be Least

      During the church service today there were several baptisms, one of which struck me deeply. It was an older man who had recently accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. One of the things he talked about was the very subject that I posted yesterday. He said for most of his life he had a "relationship with the religion and not with the Lord." I think many people are in that same position. They love everything about the religion by going through motions and putting an act on the outside, forgetting to tend to the inside. Christianity is not about religion, it is about a personal relationship with Jesus.

"Then the Lord said to him, "Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness." (Luke 11:39)

May the grace of the Lord be with God's people.