Where's Your Faith At?

We live in a world where we are taught many different things that are, in the grand scheme of things, inconsistent. Let me give you an example, every year, car manufacturer's come out with a newer model of a vehicle that is supposed to be better in every way than its predecessor or they'll come out with a whole new fleet of vehicles. What car manufacturers and their marketers do is teach the consumers, that what vehicle we have isn't good enough and we need their newest car to make us happy. The car we have now, doesn't have the best gas mileage, the sweetest car stereo, enough horsepower, the outside doesn't look like the Audi R8, you get the picture. You might be asking, what's the point I'm getting at? The point is, is that this world has nothing to offer us that will sustain our joy and happiness. Think about it, every product out there is supposedly better than something else.

Tony Horton, the creator of P90X is known for this extreme workout that will whip your rear end to get you into the best shape of your life. It was a craze, people spent a good amount of money to buy this product to look beautiful. Here's the thing, the product works if you do it correctly. Then shortly after Shaun T created the Insanity workout. This workout is supposed to make P90X look like it's nothing. The body you'll get by doing in Insanity will be better than what you'd get doing P90X. There's always something better out there, telling us that we're never happy with what we have now. The world's beliefs and messages it sends us is inconsistent and will ultimately fail us because it won't meet our expectations.

If you put all of you faith into another person, let's say your boyfriend or girlfriend or spouse, what you're expecting them to do is make you happy. The problem with that was that a human cannot sustain joy that you desire. They will fail you and then you end up resenting them because they haven't done what you've expected of them. That type of thinking will lead to heartbreak, trust me I've been down that road, it doesn't end pretty.

Jesus, on the other hand, the man that lived a life without sin, that came down from heaven, to earth to save a bunch of messed up human beings, by dying on a cross to forgive us for our sins, because we are separated from God, and through His death on the cross we can be reconciled with God. Then three days later, He rose from the grave to prove that He's a savior worth putting our faith and trust in. Here's the thing, He did that all because He loves us (Rom 5:8). Jesus is the way to live a life full of joy, direction, and love. He is the ONLY thing we need (John 14:6). At the end of the day, Jesus Christ is the only one who will never change about anything, His love for us far beyond our understanding, and all He wants is a relationship with us. Jesus isn't after our begrudging submission or our behavior, He's after our joy and our heart. (Ephesians 3:17). When we let go of wanting to be in control of our own lives and let Jesus take over, we'll learn that He won't fail us.

So what do you put your faith in? Is it the ways of the world, where culture teaches us inconsistent things, which are actually lies? Or will you put your faith into Jesus Christ who loves you so much that He doesn't care where you're at in life, He just wants to have a relationship with you, and follow Him. Coming from a 25 year old man who's put his faith into all the wrong things that I thought would make me happy, but ultimately left me feeling more alone, depressed and lost, like alcohol, drugs, and the opposite sex, I can tell you from experience and I tell you the truth, in love, Jesus is the only way.