You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too 

If someone claims, "I know Him well," but doesn't

keep His commandments, he's obviously a liar.  His life

doesn't match his words.  Anyone who claims to be intimate

with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.

1 John 2:4,6

In this passage of Scripture, John takes to task a community of believers whose lives do not match their words.  When we put on the name of  Christ, God asks us not to take that name in vain by living a life in direct opposition to everything that Jesus stood for.  We can not, in the words of my father, "have our cake and eat it too."  We either are Christians who try to walk in Christ's footsteps, or we are imposters. 

Jesus lived a life of devotion to His Father and loving attention to the people who constantly surrounded Him.  He had harsh words at times for the imposters, but even then, He called to them to come into fellowship with Him and His Father.  He healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, caused the lame to walk, healed the disciples' relatives, raised the dead, nurtured and guided the men surrounding Him, shepherding them toward becoming the leaders of an infant church.  He loved, and loved, and loved again.  Now that He is gone from the earth, we who call ourselves Christians are to take up His mantle of service toward the world around us, loving and loving and loving again!

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We will work with each other, we will work side by side.

We will work with each other, we will work side by side.

And we’ll guard human dignity and save human pride.

And they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love,

Yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love.

The Faith We Sing, No. 2223