Characteristics of Believers

19 June 2007 – Characteristics of Believers

1 Timothy 1:5

…all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.

From the words of advice above, we know that this is for all believers, it is the characteristics of all believers of Christ should have. Many of us has lacked some of it, some of them has clear conscience, but impure heart; some of them possess pure heart but constantly unfaithful. It is reasonable that we are imperfect, but the fact is we are achieving perfection from time to time! We will improve! Right?

A Christian life is a journey, it is not that we have believed in Christ then it is the end, it is a journey. A journey means that we will go from one place to another. We will depart from worse and arrive to best at the end! It may seem impossible, but it is the Christianity about, it is not about salvation, it is about life-changing! Paul can be a good example:

1 Tim 1:13-14

Even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ. In my insolence, I persecuted his people. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief.

Oh, how generous and gracious our Lord was! He filled me with the faith and love that come from Christ Jesus.

Paul used to be a wicked man, but the Grace of God abounds in Him and end up with the apostle of Christ, this drastic change is not merely by Paul himself, but by the power of God in his life, it is nothing superficial, it is real. Even it happens nowadays, have you heard of a conman turned into a Good Samaritan? It happens to a brother in KL; There are many shipwrecked lives who repaired and reused by God. Everything works out for good (Roman 8:28)!

So we should keep improving rather than standing there, we must let other sees that we are Christians, be glad about it, not shame of it! For Christ is our glorious redeemer!

Franco