Sometimes, it appears, Christians seem to go through their days without doing a whole lot, in an active sense, for the Lord. There seems to be a mindset of something like this, “I’m a good Christian. I don’t do anything really bad. I’m a good person overall. That’s what it means for me to be a Christian.”
But, is that what it means to be a Christian? Just be a good person and don’t do anything really bad? Solomon concluded this about life: “Man’s all” is to “fear God and keep His commandments” (Ecc. 12:13). Keep His commandments? Do I do that every day? James concluded this about life: “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin” (Jas. 4:17). So, there is actually “doing” needed to keep me out of sin?
There are scores of individuals in the Bible who were relatively “good people” but were not right with God (cf. Matt. 7:22-23; Acts 10:1-6). Let us not sit back every day, avoid doing the “bad” things, and then think we’re “good” with God. Let’s get up and DO.