Christians - Poor performers?

I have been a business manager all my life. In business, performance is of the utmost importance. I have also found many so called “Christians” to be poor performers and I traced it back to the teaching that they received at church. They were taught that if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and you are saved then you are sealed and you are waiting to go to heaven, you don't need to do anything. There is nothing further from the truth , that is an utmost lie.

Jesus said:”Whoever wishes to follow Me, must deny Himself, pick up his cross and follow Me every day. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ then you excel at your performance in the work place, at school, whatever you do in life, you do it better that everybody else because you are not doing it for anybody but for Jesus and He does not accept half measures. Most so called “Christians” don't know Jesus and that is why they don't know His standard of performance. If they knew Him they would be absolute prefect performers in the work place, in the college, in everything that they did because a child of God does everything perfectly. He walks in utter righteousness, utter integrity, he carries out his business with integrity as well. He does not steal from his boss, he is on the job on time and while he is there he is working, he is not wasting his employers time. He is an example to all the other employees, but that is not the way that they have been taught.

Dear friend, Jesus has one standard and that is perfection. We need to attain to that standard in everything that we do or else we cannot say that we are following Jesus Christ. Jesus will not lead us into poor performance, into laziness. Jesus leads us into being shining lights in this world that even in the secular things that we do, that we do it in such a way that our light shines for the Kingdom of God.

It is because most professing Christians do not know the One in whom they believe that they are such poor performers and they carry that same poor performance to their devotion and the way that they follow Jesus and they are going to END UP IN HELL because they never really followed Jesus. They give Him the same poor performance and the same poor service and therefor they will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus requires utmost perfection from us. We need to follow Him with all our power, deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him every day and do it in such a way that our light shines in this dark world.

May Jesus bless you.