Inspired

This blog entry is inspired by a conversation I had this afternoon with a friend of mine.

As we were walking back to our dorm, the topic of illegal music downloading was brought up. This led into other topics, and before we knew it we were standing in the parking lot in a deep religious discussion. We are both professing Christians, and got talking about how we are supposed to be “salt in the earth” and “light in the world”, we are to be “not conformed but transformed” by the world. This led to a deeper examination of our lives. Are we really being transformed? Are we truly being a light in the world? More often than not we become conformed anyway. It may be in just the small things in life, things that we try to justify because they “aren’t a big deal” or they’re “done by everyone else.”  And that is where we miss the target. It doesn’t matter if it is a big deal or not, any kind of deal is wrong.  Just because everyone else is doing it should be more of a reason to NOT do it than to follow along. How can we be set apart from this world and be beacons of hope and love if we are just mixed in among the crowd? My life is going to be put through some serious scrutiny. Hopefully I can become a beacon.