It really doesn’t matter who we are, none of us are consistent in our practice of the worldview that we hold.  If we are unbelievers who have thought through exactly what we do and don’t believe, we can only come out with a final conculsion that the world and all the individual things in it, are absurd.  As Francis Schaeffer used to say, the result of “the impersonal plus time, plus chance.”

Schaeffer used to point out that the both notorious, and noted athiest, Bertrand Russel, had concluded that humanity’s final destination was an ignominious consignment to return to the dirt.  Nevertheless, he gave himself to those issues that he viewed as moral causes.  Though he thought that it really didn’t matter whether one behaved “well” or “badly” he often championed the cause of peace.  Even an athiest cannot behave like one consistently.

From the starting point of Christian faith, one faces a high bar indeed.  The Bible is clear that we all miss the mark of God’s perfect standard.  Who is consistent in living out the most fundamental of the precepts of the faith?  Nevertheless, in another way the Christian is the most consistent of all in that the Christian is the thankful participant in the redemptive work of Christ.  By His finished work even our worst inconsistencies may be stricken from remembrance forever! 

God knows what we are made of and has provided for those of our inconsistencies that are truly sinful, but appropriation of that provision is only possible by faith.