Credibility from Mountaintops

[363 words] There are many people who look on those who are religious as naïve, that is, people with good intentions, but devoted people deluded by ideas not based in reality. Though this is hardly the case, it matters not; some just choose to think this because they desire to live in accordance with what the world presents. Unfortunately, many Christians give them reason to think this because they themselves do not align their lives with the confession of Christ they express. In my devotional reading this past week, I read 1 John 1:1-4. As I read, I reflected on what the Lord’s apostle was saying. Consider at a certain point in history, the man John was with the man Jesus; not only was he with Him, but so were other men (1:1). John presents himself as a credible man; he heard Jesus speak, he saw Jesus in his presence…