Honk, if you love Jesus!

A year ago, a dear friend was diagnosed with breast cancer. I hate breast cancer. I want breast cancer to be cured. I am not wearing a pink ribbon.

I recently drove past a man holding a sign that read, "Honk, if you love Jesus." It was a tense moment for me. I do love Jesus, but I didn't honk.

I support our troops, but I don't have a bumper sticker that says so and I don't wear a yellow ribbon.

I regularly read Facebook statuses that tell me that if I'm a Christian, or patriotic, or agree with one cause or another, I should post a certain status, click a certain button, or "like" a certain cause. I almost never do what those things want me to do.

It's entirely possible that the reason that I resist all these things is because I'm grumpy and rebellious and I don't want anyone telling me what to do. I hope that's not it. I hope that it's because doing such things seems a lot like what Matthew 6 tells us not to do. I'd like to think that my resistance to such things is the grace of God in my life helping me to be obedient to the Scriptures. It's probably a bit of both.

Maybe it's perfectly fine to honk and wear ribbons and post cause-supporting Facebook statuses. But I'm afraid that if I do such things, I'll deceive myself into believing that I actually demonstrated love for Jesus, or helped cure cancer...I don't want to confuse wearing a ribbon with actually doing a good deed.