A dare is a challenge.
We’re simply upping the game, suggesting someone doesn’t have enough nerve to step out of their comfort zone and be someone other than who they are.
Our natural instinct is to respond in kind, saying, “You don’t think so? Just watch this…”
Then we kiss the girl… jump from the bridge… drive over the speed limit… smoke the cigarette… sneak out at night… steal the money…
Can we turn a dare on its head? Can we make that challenge into something positive? Can we up the game in a good way?
James 4:11 throws out a challenge many of us struggle to achieve:
“Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.”
But it’s true, we cry. They really are rotten, conniving fools. If it’s the truth—
Telling the truth isn’t the challenge. That’s not what God wants us to step up to. He wants us to be kind even when the truth isn’t.
1 John 4:1 challenges us with a warning:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.”
This sounds easy at first glance, but the devil sends beguiling spirits our way, offering us what we want to hear, not what God identifies as truth.
If we listen too closely, we’ll be pulled astray, and God will no longer be in our sights.
John 3:16 is our challenge to believe on Christ:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
People will do almost anything on a dare. How about accepting Christ as your savior? I dare you. I double dare you.
Try a life in Christ, and see if it works for you.
If we’re going to rise to a challenge, let’s challenge ourselves to live faithfully for Jesus.
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