+The Real Reality of Christianity+

Many have taken on the task of describing the Christian life some with success and some not, and so I will also put forth my deepest hearts beliefs about such. 

What is a Christian? A Christian is one who’s heart once mastered and owned by desires contrary to the nature of God, has been extracted by the Divine and replaced with a heart and nature so fully filled and flooded with light and love that the former is eclipsed to absolutely nothing more than a bad memory. So much so that the past life of this heart is only called upon as a cause for rejoicing that it has departed. Like an empty prison cell only remembered by the former resident as a reminder of how fantastic freedom from that cell really is.

The only struggle found in the absolute finished work of Christ is the struggle of one trying to describe it.  It’s like trying to describe to an infant the complex biology of how a mother produces milk. Yet infants nurse at its simplicity. Or like trying to explain to a child why air is invisible or how many stars there are in the sky. The child simply breathes the air and watches the stars twinkle. The reality is that this Grace can only be illustrated by inward affections outwardly expressed by the one ravished by it. It speaks through experience. This glorious Gospel was intended and can only be perfectly communicated in this way, in public displays of divine affection. I am convinced that reason or witty debate never won a single person to salvation. The seed might have been planted but it was God himself who made it grow. It is Christ and his infinite Love alone that draws men to Himself and this very Love permeates and flawlessly communicates its irresistible nature through all who drink of its goodness.  There is nothing more persuasive than a believer enjoying God.