The pharmaceutical Christian

     Try a chill pill for a Christian.  You know, the immediate cigarette after service and before the potluck. Or maybe it's the need for a cold beer when you've left church, gone home or to the ball game.  Perhaps it's the drink you take for medicinal purposes or for that upset stomach or stress.  You see, we, the Christian have all kinds of pharmaceuticals ways to evade just being the Christian Jesus intends us to be.  We cover up all kinds of secret sins by justification and rationalization and call them good drugs.  Sedating the believer, and non, with soothing lies through sermons, Bible studies and Sunday Schools are also a means of pharmaceuticals the Christian gives and takes all the time not offending those attending with talks about going to hell.  Perhaps you are sending your children with these pharmaceuticals like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus.  Depressed yet?

     Maybe the song should be entitled "Anything But Jesus!" as that's what people have chosen, engaged and marketed to others.  Pharmaceuticals for Christians are meant to cover the truth so we don't have to make a life or death decisions.  We cheapen the Gospel message with "feel good" meds of illusions that no one goes to hell slipped in with a teaspoon of sugar to dull the ability to think.  The ph6armaceutical Christian organization (I don't call it a church) sedates the Christian to the point of "it's someone else's job" and relegates the "active" person to Sunday morning and Wednesday nights while the "inactive" attend on Easter and Christmas as if they've been on the mission field the rest of the year.  Instead of a "family" of believers gathering together to fulfill the Great Commission there are celebrations distancing people from Jesus so as to not be offensive to those who are perishing.  In this doped up state the church becomes just as lost as those without Christ.  This should not be!!!
     What to do?  Throw up our hands because the problem is to big or someone else's?  Far be it from the true Christian to do nothing.  The very least we can do is pray.  Prayer is the antidote to the pharmaceutical Christian.  I'm talking about ACTS:  Praying this formula is giving God Adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication (prayer requests).  Couple this with reading the Word to the point of saturation is essential.  Having the Word on your lips before anything else puts it in your heart!  Another antidote for the pharmaceutical Christian.  Finally, get off your butt and do something for Jesus!  Do HIS will instead of your own.  Spend your time instructing your children about Jesus instead of your favorite sports team.  Get off the drugs!  Let Jesus live through you!  Remember this is always your choice!