Do You Still Love Him?

I think faith can easily boil down to this:

If things are going wrong, do you still love Him?

I subscribed to our church's weekly devos for Holy Week, and a line one of our pastors wrote got to the very core of it:

"Jesus did not come to rescue us from our circumstances. He came to save us from our sin."

I think we all get this wrong sometimes, on a personal level and a church one, too.

We think something "magical" will happen if we tithe like we should, if we serve like we should, if we do all the things a "good" Christian should.

But filthy rags, my friends, and no one is good but God.

Instead? We should obey like we should, bending our knee and submitting our pride to the One who is owed all our praise.

This often comes with a change in perspective–like Paul said, being transformed by the renewing of our minds.

And if something like that sounds daunting, I'd like to give you this as a starting point.

Because in reality, the bad is inevitable. We live in a fallen world.

But there's always something beautiful in watching how God uses it to save our souls.