So I was outside, hanging with the coolest being ever, and my Best Friend, and kinda winding down my time with Him, praying for some people and whatnot...  And looking up at the full moon, I thought back to the movie I had watched earlier, "Pirates of the Carribean," in which, shortly after Elizabeth discovers the curse put on the pirates of the Black Pearl, Captian Barbosa comments "The moonlight shows us for what we really are..."

And a thought hit me...

If we, as humans, the entire human race, were like that, how many people would go outside at night?

If all humans were made visible for what they really are by the moonlight, were shown to be who they are inside, before God (which you always are... Just...  Ya know, sidepoint) and man, would anyone want to go outside at night?

I think that WAY to many Christians (myself included here.. Don't think I'm above any of the stuff I ever write about...  This is how I know it so well are living lies.  At least the way I see and experience it, they put on themselves the label of "Christian" while living lives that bare a striking resembalence to some UN-Christians I know, and in some ways, act much more wordly.  Any witness they might have for Christ is easily overrun by their wordly ways, leading any onlooker to assume that "Christain" IS just a label.  As my brother (in-law, but he's close enough) Chris Lincoln put it in his song "Simply Adoration"..

"This is not my obligation

This is simply adoration

Jesus

I love You

Jesus

I adore You..."

So simple, yet what to many Christians are neglecting... God is not a label.  God is not an obligation.  God is not reading your Bible twice a day and faithfully going to church.

God is love.  God is a relationship that ever person needs, whether they know it or not.  God-shaped holes can be plugged with wordly things extremely easily, and sometimes to the point where one can ignore for long periods of time....  But the world and God simply don't mix....  God is love, and the world has distorted that word so badly it makes me sick to my stomach.  God is relationship, and I don't even wanna go there....  

When Christianity is given such a bad name by so many of it's "members," as if Christianity could be equated to some club, I honestly don't wonder why more people are coming to church.  We aren't much different.  If God is just a ticket to heaven, who wants to go?  If heaven is a place full of Someone that, on this earth anyways, seems to be just a way to get there....  Is there a point?  

This is one of my favorite quotes of all time, because it is true beyond what most "Christians" would be willing to acknowledge: