Is There an App for That?

We live in times where there really is an app for that. Consider that we can, with the touch of a button with our finger, order food, have groceries delivered to our home, purchase clothes, purchase airline tickets, etc. all from the comforts of where we are at. We have a term for dining and it’s called fast food. I would call the times that we are living in as fast “I want it now-just give me the app.”

What about our faith and our dedication to our Lord in these times? Is there an app for that?  We have seen drive-through churches, drive-through funerals, and many other attempts to put the “fast I want it now” syndrome on some of the more serious things in life.

When it comes to our faith and our diligence to stay close to the truth, there isn’t a newfound, new age thinking, that puts a spin of using an app to follow through in our walk with our Lord. Just as the apostle Paul says in Philippians 2:12-16, “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

Paul talks about “working on your salvation and holding firm to the word.”  This concept of working and holding require actions not pushing buttons. Just as the men of faith over the past 2000 years worked diligently in their faith, we must do the same today and there isn’t an app for that.