Don't Just Settle

 C.S. Lewis says this in his book, Mere Christianity, “Christ says, ‘Give me All.  I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.  I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.  No half-measures are any good.  I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down.  I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out.  Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked.  I will give you a new self instead.  In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours.’”[1]

The writer of Hebrews tells us that as followers of Jesus we must eat what he calls, "solid food."  This food is "for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil" (Heb. 5:14). We must not settle for anything less than all that God has for us.  Therefore we are called to "press on to maturity" (Heb. 6:1). 

What Lewis speaks about in the above paragraph reflects the words in Hebrews, indicating that following Jesus is for those who are serious about Him, about faith, about the kingdom of God.   The love of God is so real and powerful Issac Watts said, back in 1707, it "demands my soul, my life, my all!"[2]

Now is the time, it seems to me, (maybe way past time), that the people of God step up and radically give themselves do whatever it takes to have their senses trained to discern good and evil.  It is time for "solid food."  It is time to "press on to maturity."  Some are well on their way. 

Let's make it unanimous. 

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[1] C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, (New York : Collier Books, 1960) , p. 167.

[2] "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, " by  Issac Watts, 1707