ARE YOU A RELIGIOUS CHAMELEON, OR A TRUE BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN?

One of my most memorable pets growing up in Africa was a large Chameleon. I loved the idea that it would change colors to adapt to the environment that it was in. If its surroundings were green, it would change to a green color. If its surroundings were brown it would change to a brown color. It eventually died, but the concept of changing colors for the sake of adapting is unfortunately the trend of modern Christianity.

When a religious chameleon is around church friends, he acts like a person who goes to church.

He prays, he sings songs.

He even goes to the church Bible study.

He may sing in the choir

He may be a deacon or elder

He may be a man of the cloth, and even preach from the pulpit

However, when he’s around his non-Christian friends, something very unusual happens. He starts to change. He starts to act like them.

If they smoke, he smokes.

If they tell bad jokes, he listens to them and may even tells bad jokes.

If they use the Lord’s name in vain he does not object, and may even blaspheme himself

If they get inebriated, so does he

If they are addicted to worldly movies, so is he.

The religious chameleon changes according to his environment or who he’s around. If he sees his Christian friends again, he immediately changes back into a Christian again. He really likes the many good things in the Christian life, but is not interested in being a true follower of the Lord. He likes the idea of a fire insurance to keep him from hell.

All chameleons die sooner or later. Mine did? But what happens to the religious chameleons after death. Matthew 7:21

“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but the one who does the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
I have to confess to you that the biggest grief in my life, and of course of the Lord’s, is that I find no pleasure in the death of religious chameleons. I find no delight in people who are condemned to hell. I long that people be saved. That is the great heart cry of every true Christian.