Do you ever look at faith in Jesus as a “Touchstone Proposition?”
Consider a definition of what a touchstone proposition is to be something like, “A fundamental principle, standard, or test used to evaluate the quality, value, or genuineness of someone’s worldview.”
If identifying the truth surrounding a person’s convictions was based on how they choose to live their lives … what would objective reality say about your worldview?
I think it may help to personalize these kinds of questions as we consider ways in which we come up short in our behaviors … along with specific actions we can take to daily grow closer to the Lord.
As it relates to motor skill acquisition, and let’s just say for example changing a bad habit in your golf swing … the reality is that behaviors don’t change without awareness! How is our profession of faith in alignment with our lived-out observable actions?
Back to the original question as we consider a proposition to mean, “A statement that can be either true or false, and its truth value can be determined.”
Jesus says in Matthew 7:16 & 24-27 “You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
What we decide to do with Jesus changes everything!! Putting our trust in Him will certainly change how we act throughout our lifetime, as well as change our eternal destination.
If Jesus is in fact the very foundation of your soul (the essence of who you are) …. truly a touchstone proposition … then there will come a day when you will live with Him forever in heaven! According to Scripture, there will literally come a day when there will be no more tears, no more suffering, no more estranged relationships, no more financial hardships, no more physical limitations … and, no more death!
May we all, here and now, take inventory of those areas that are within our control to change, in preparation for the goal of hearing Jesus say when we meet Him face-to-face, on that glorious day … “Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things … Now, enter into the joy of your lord!”