the humanism in me, the humanism in you..

I had the opportunity to listen to a teaching my dad sent me by Paris Reidhead, he was a pastor and missionary in the mid-1900's. The message was titled "10 Shekels and a shirt" (You can find it here) The scripture he read from was in Judges. He spoke with passion about how humanism has crept into every aspect of our life as Christians. Simply put, humanism is that the end for man is happiness and we see God as a means in our life and not the glorious end. Too much of this world is in us today, but yet we don't see it. In our life we let things in (we even let them reign) that would make the early church cringe, something that would make Paul write another "letter-to-the-galatians" to you, but nothing changes. I don't think we realize how holy God really is. If we did, we wouldn't watch the tv we watch, we wouldn't watch the movies we watch, we wouldn't speed that 5-over, we wouldn't roll past the stop signs; but not only because we are afraid to sin, but because we owe God so much, that a life striving towards His holiness is the least amount of love I can show...think about this in your life, I am thinking about it in mine. But some may say, oh, your so legalistic, we live in grace grace GRACE! If you believe that you can continue to sin so that the grace abounds, HEAVEN FORBID! Your Saviour, your LORD, your REDEEMER deserves your love, attention and obedience, it can not and should not be an option in our life. He lived AND died for me, the least I can do is live for Him. There will be choices, yes, but the choice must be easy. Love God? Love me?