What IF...?!?!

So today going back to Calvary I had my iPod on shuffle ad a playlist full of a variety of secular and Christian songs on it.  What came on was "The Motions" by Matthew West.  Now I realize that I have already done a post about this song, in fact it was one of my first posts, but this is a different idea from this song.  I found his lyrics to that song very compelling.  Namely part of the chorus that says "I don't want to spend my whole life asking: What if I had given everything?"

This phrase had me thinking: Am I spending my life NOT giving everything? I think about what I am doing in my life.  I am currently at school.  I have a desire to learn theology.  I want to learn about God.  I want to teach God to the youth I am working with at Kearney.

This song is really a call to action.  Don't spend your time doing the tings of a Christian, such as going to church, youth group, prayer, Bible study and whatever else that you may do for your Christian life.  Don't spend your life simply doing those things, calling yourself a Christian and not doing all the things that Christ has asked us to do.

I gotta admit that it is sort of my life.  I like to sit back and just settle with my Bible reading and my prayer.  I don't want to get any further out in my Christian walk.  I get satisfied with where I am and I don't want to go any further.  Yet this feeds directly into the question the chorus of Matthew West's song, "What if I had given everything?"

What do I give? There are times when I give my all, there are times when I just don't want to do anything more than read Scripture.  Yet all over Scripture there are calls to action.  There are calls of a changed life for those who have placed faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

What if I had given everything? That is a great question to ask yourself.  Examine yourself and answer that question