The Ride Home

After preaching Sunday at The Bridge on my ride home I thought to myself, “what could I have done better with this sermon?” My answer was the application. What difference does knowing God actually make in our life?

If we’re honest, as Christians, we’re probably not that much different than your average Joe. We often feel pressure to seem more righteous and holy because that’s what we’re supposed to be, right? When we experience our own sin and inability to change things, even after we recognize God as the one we’ve been looking for, we feel discouraged.

I can imagine Satan sitting around reminding us of this very fact: “Knowing God hasn’t really changed your life and it never will.” So what gives? I think the point is that when we know Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who will connect us to the heart of God, that instead of traveling alone in our struggles we travel with God. So in practice it doesn’t mean that we won’t struggle any more. Rather, it means we have a companion for the road. We now wrestle with God and what he has done instead of wrestling with our own deprived selves.

What does that look like on a day to day basis? Stay tuned.

Matt