There is no scoreboard

ScoreboardIf you’re a
Foldie” you’ll remember Travis Sewell. Travis now heads up Crossroads Adventure
Company
. He’s designed a “team cradle” to safely catch people doing the Trust
Fall.
Check out his web site and catch up with an old friend.

Travis shared a
Kingdom principle one time at camp that I’ve never forgotten. He painted a
picture in our imaginations of the end of time and it’s just us, individually
standing before God. No religious activity, no Christian friends, no Christian
CD collection, no t-shirts with clever Christian slogans (Godwiser?) …just us…standing
naked before God.

In that holy and
terrible moment of judgment, the only thing that matters is your relationship
with Him
. He doesn’t care about how many times you’ve read the Bible cover to
cover. He doesn’t care about how many consecutive Sundays you’ve been to
church. He doesn’t even care how many of your friends you’ve invited to Bible
study. None of that matters. No one is keeping score.

The only thing that
will matter at that moment is your relationship with Him. When you look into
His face…do you know Him—does He know you? Have you allowed Him to have access,
to have a voice in your life? The only value of reading or studying the Bible
or going to church is that those things help to build your relationship with
Him. If you are doing those things out of some kind of perception of obligation
or performance…it’s an empty pursuit. God will never love you more (or less)
than He does right now…no matter what you do or don’t do. He loves you totally
and completely…you are His.

You see, God is not
Santa Claus. He’s not “making a list and checking it twice, going to find out
who’s naughty and nice.” And He’s certainly not making a determination on who
to bless and who not to bless based on some performance list!

It’s all about
relationship, not about scoreboard. Let it go. Stop trying so hard to do the
things you think will make Him love you more. I’ll say it again…He loves you
now! Start building a relationship. But that’s just what I think…what do you
think
?

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