The shelf doesn't save us

Hello friend.

Let me ask you a daft question this morning. What would you think if someone wanted to learn football, so they bought all the books, memorised every rule, watched every match from the stands, and could tell you the offside rule in their sleep, but they never once stepped onto the pitch?

You’d think something was a bit off, wouldn’t you?

I’ve been sitting with Luke 6:46 this week, where Jesus says, “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?” It sounds sharp on the page. But I don’t hear scolding. I hear the voice of a friend who loves us too much to let us sit in the stands forever.

Here’s the bit that’s stuck to me. Knowing about Jesus isn’t the same as walking with him. The shelf of Christian books doesn’t save us. The shelf points us to the Saviour, and the Saviour says, “Follow me.”

The good news? Faith doesn’t live in grand gestures. It lives in the small stuff. A phone call you’ve been putting off. A kind word when a sharp one was easier. A knock on the door of the neighbour two doors down. That’s trust and obey with your boots on.

You don’t have to be good at it. You just have to show up.

I’ve unpacked the whole thing in today’s 5-minute devotional, including a tiny, do-able step for this week. Watch it here:

Walking with you.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/you-are-not-alone?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true