The difference between Christian and Non-Christian

What is the difference between Christian and Non-Christian? I try to think about it currently and want to summarize it a little bit.

First, as a Christian, we all think that we are sinners. The more you know Christ, the more sinful you feel you are, but the more blessed you are because Christ's grace will be abundant for you. Some people may be strange about why do people think they are sinners. Are not the Christian like a nerd? I thought in this way before. I thought I was really a good guy. But the more I know Christ, the more I read the Holy Bible, the more sensitive I am to sin. Then what is the SIN? The biggest one is don't know God and disobey His commandments. That leads almost to all the sins for the whole human being. Because we don't obey God, we are all self-centered, we are jealous, we hate people, we complain other people, we commit adultery, we have many idols, etc. All these things lead us astray from God.

Second, it is not enough for us to know we are sinners, but we commit our sin to God. It does not mean Christian will be happy always, or will have good life, but on the other hand, Christian always suffer because of their faith. Also, Christian will also get pissed off when something bad happens, for example, someone broke your car, you will also be angry at first. Christians are just the saved sinners!!! We are of no difference in that sense. But because we know we are sinner, every time we cannot control ourselves, we sin; however, we commit our sin to God and to ask for God's forgiveness. And because God is full of love and justice, He may still charge us some bad results because of our sin, but we are still be loved by God because He loves us from the beginning to the end. To make it easy to understand, just like the situation with father and child. Every time the child has done some bad thing, the father will show his justice to his child to teach him, but he still love the child so much. Our heavenly father is similar to that, but His love is much much more than that, and He even kill His own son to show His justice and His love. And all His love, wisdom is in that!!!

Finally, we have the Holy Spirit inside us, who renew us everyday and make us be more Christ like. It maybe hard to understand what is Holy Spirit. It is some sort of scaring thing. But actually, according to the Bible, the Holy Spirit testifies the Father and the Son. And it has God's power in it to change people's heart, to let people see God, and to show miracles sometimes even. Because we have the Holy Spirit inside us, we are not just ourselves anymore, but God's spirit is with us. We cannot see it, we cannot touch it, we cannot smell it, but we can see the fruit of it, such as love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control. Just like the wind, we cannot see it, but we can see the result of it when it goes over some trees. Because we have that, we can see the true Christian will even joyful in their stressful time, they will cheer even in the sad time, because they know that is what God has prepared for them, and they have faith and hope that God's plan is the best.

That is basically some of my current thought on it. It may not be quite correct or precisely described, but sure it really makes us Christian to think seriously what we should be like. We are the saved sinners, but because of Christ's blood, we can be reborn again, and can be cleansed and purified through our whole life so that when we see God finally in the judgement day, we will be blameless and be full of joy! Actually, now we are in heaven be with God if you truly have the faith.

Father, praise be all to your name, let your will be done!

Amen