It is easy being a good person in worldly terms.

It is easy to help the poor, because you feel like it is your obligation to do so, since you have more.

But is it always easy being a good Christian. Meaning, to be the good person, and to live out the ethics etched in your heart by the Word of God?

To always give to the less fortunate, and to take care of the widows and the orphans, without pass? When the street vendor walks past your car window, to greet him friendly and say no thanks, or to ignore the person, or to swear at them, which we see way too often.

God has challenged me to in time move my ministry to the African Orphans out there. To go and do upliftment trips to the orphanages up there in big and dark Africa, and to stop sitting on my hiney, at the comfy church building where I can take, take and take a little bit more. To move away from the institution called the Church, and to move into a Jesus like life. To go spend my time with the unsaved, and to love them. Not preach to them, but only to love them. show them that there is still someone that cares, and to stop judging them. To stop asking the question to the prostitute of why she is doing what she is doing, but to start to understand that she does not want to be there, and she has forgotten what it feels like to be loved, and then to show her that love. To hold her in my arms, without expecting ANYTHING, and I say again, ANYTHING, from her.

I find it that we as Christians find it way too easy to sit in church and our cell groups, saying to each other what we must do and asking what we can do, but how often do we really go out and do something? And why do we need to make it an event to show love to the “DIFFERENT” people out there? Why can’t we start to make it part of our lives, and really start to live that way, and move away from all there little rules we have created within our organised religion, which Jesus even despised of the Pharisees. We need to get back to reading the Bible, and not other books written by people. These books might be good, and they might teach us a lot, but really people, too often we take what a person wrote in a book, or on a blog, above what the Bible tells us.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27 (NIV)