An Accountable Life

Therefore we make it our aim…to be well pleasing to Him.2 CORINTHIANS 5:9 It is unthinkable to believe that you can live a faithful, fruitful Christian life merely on good intentions and warm feelings. The Christian life is an accountable life, based on specific principles and standards. It is founded on divinely revealed values and beliefs to which God holds each of us. A young man once asked me, “How can you know if you are truly a Christian? How can you know if your decision for Christ wasn’t just an emotional experience?” I replied, “The only way to know if we have experienced justification, if we have been made right with Him and brought into His family, is by looking at our hearts and our lives. If Christ is our Savior and Lord, the deepest desire of our hearts will be to serve and to please Him, and that desire will be expressed in a longing for holiness and a pattern of righteous living.”