For to live a faithful life means to live a life reordered, re-prioritized by the grace and demands of God. And that is a daily challenge. Of course , he said, however, the Christian can t spend it on himself. Now there is an awful lot of stuff here. And that is just the point.
Faithfulness encompasses all of life s decisions.
And the re-ordering of priorities, of how we live, the transformation of our lives is what is at stake when we are talking about following Jesus, about serving God. At a synod meeting I attended last week, we were reflecting on what the church needs today. One of the participants, a friend of some years, said You know, we need a new measure of obedience to God in the church today. Walt Wangerin, Christian storyteller, shares a story about finding his son reading a big stack of comic books. He discovered his son had taken them from the library not checked them out-taken them.