Do You Need To Get Up?

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. – 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

There are a lot of people who have already given their life to Christ. They are suited up. Many Christians have been trained up, but there is a problem. Many believers today need to get up. I want you to feel a little uncomfortable if you are not getting up. I want to talk to the people who have been benchwarmers. Let me explain what I mean by that.

You know Christ and you have been following Him for some time. You know the plays, but you are sitting on the bench, and you are not completely engaged. I don't know what is happening in your life right now, but I know that God doesn't want to have benchwarmers! He doesn't want us to be sitting on the bench on the sidelines, talking to each other. He wants us to be ready to go. He wants us to either be on the field, or He wants us to be ready to get onto the field the moment He sends us into the game.

So with that in mind, I want to give you a few things to keep in mind if you’re wondering whether or not you need to get up. This will be sort of a check-in with yourself, so I encourage you to think intently on each point and see where you might need to grow and change to get up and on the field for Christ. I’m going to give you two things to consider today and we’ll cover three more tomorrow. Let’s dive in.

The first thing to consider is that if your worldview is not biblically based, you need to get up. Many Christians dichotomize their spiritual life from their secular life. They do their job. They live in the world with their friends and with a secular culture. Separately, there is another part of them where they do church, but the two worlds never meet. When they are with church people, they speak the vernacular of the church. They know the biblical phrases, and they know how to navigate the church. However, on Monday, the Bible never enters into their thinking. It never really enters into their world of living.

If your definition of the world is more secular than biblically based, you need to get up. You are not using the Word of God to define your world. If you are not using the Word of God to shape your worldview, to see history from a biblical perspective, and to see the present culture morally with a biblical framework, you need to get up.

The second thing to consider is that if you’re decision making is not biblically rooted, you need to get up. Many people just make their decisions based on what they feel. If they feel it’s right, they do it. Or, if their friends feel like it's okay, they do it. If you are making decisions that aren’t rooted in the truth of God’s Word, you need to get up.

Many Christians justify their lifestyle by looking at their friends and what they are doing, even if their lifestyle is anti-biblical. Don’t be one of those people. Instead, hold every decision you make up to Scripture, and seek to make wise, God-honoring decisions every chance you get.