Some people claim to want promotion to the “left seat” in the cockpit but do nothing to emulate good captains or sharpen their own airmanship. If this is true, is it possible they do not want what they say they do or can they become what they claim to desire?
It is one thing to fear being more fully surrendered to God and another not to want to be surrendered to Him. Barriers to deeper discipleship do not necessarily stem from a fundamentally rebellious heart; they can also result from weakness or yet unconquered sin.
However, those who claim to be believers but truly do not want to journey any closer to the heart of God, and undergo the transformation inherent to that journey, are in another category.
Is it unreasonable or judgmental to at least question if a person who calls themself a Christian, yet consciously keeps Christ at a distance, is what they claim to be? Part of true conversion is a heart’s desire to know better and obey God.
This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me… Matthew 15:8 (ESV)
