No Earthly Good

1 Corinthians 10:31

So, then whether you eat or drink, or whatever you may do, do all for the glory of God.

So often people think of the Christian life as something that you do on Sunday. To them, it is a mere matter of showing up for church and then trying to do their best the rest of the week not to do too much that would be against their “religion”. These people are in reality getting no earthly good out of their faith. There is no practical application of the Biblical principles in their lives. Christianity is mainly diminished to a set of rules and regulations.

I will be the first to admit that there are things that we should do and there things that we shouldn’t do. But, if that is all that Christianity means to a person, then they have missed the mark by a light year, and are not enjoying much if any of the benefits of the Christian life here on the earth. In most instances there is little if any difference in these believers and the rest of the good old moral people of the world who are just trying to live by the Golden Rule.

The Christian life is a relationship and fellowship continually with the God who created us and who paid the redemption price to buy us out of the market place of sin. It is as real a relationship as one with any person that you may know. This relationship not only gives one the desire to live for and glorify the Lord, it also give them to ability too.

Once this relationship is understood and established, the believer then is changed from the inside out. His basic desires soon begin to change from those of self gratification and crowd pleasing to those of desire to please God. He truly begins to walk in the realm of the Spirit and then whatever he does, whether he eats or drinks, goes out or stays in, everything is done for the purpose of pleasing God and giving glory to Him. In this reality, the Christian life can never be said to be of no earthly good, instead it is of utmost earthly good.