Religious or Faith? Or is it life?

   This is something I have been thinking about for a while, as I prayed through this and talked through this, I have come up with my answer.  Some people call others religious when they talk about being a christian or any faith based group, and in fact the most recent time I was called religious it was not meant as a compliment, but I took as one anyway. Is it really being religious when I could not imagine one moment of my day, without thinking about God or  talking to Him?  My faith actually effects how I live daily, it is not something I do twice a week and the rest of the time put on the back burner.  To live my life, the way I want to. It is the exact opposite, I love God so much that why would I separate the two?  There are many things you could be religious about running, reading, exercise, football, and even church.  But is doing something "religiously" the same as having faith or living daily life? 

   The Pharisees, Levites and the Sanhedrin were religious. On the outside they did everything right.  The went to church, tithed, fasted, obeyed the law, prayed out loud.  When you looked at their life you might want to say wow.  But their hearts were different, on the inside they were lacking one very important thing, faith. For them the rules were more important, when Jesus healed some one on the Sabbath, what did the Pharisees want to do? Stone him for not observing the Sabbath.  Do you just only observe the "important" Christian holidays, or  all of them?
     Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and the disciples to name a few had true faith.  They believed in their heart Jesus is Lord.  That he was the Messiah who came here to earth to save.  They changed their lives and way of life to follow and obey Jesus' commands. This is faith.  This is the way, I pray my life, husbands and children's life will be, and look like.  It may not be the most popular choice but it is ours. 
    Faith is much more than religion, it is believing in what you can not see.  Trust there is purpose for your life.  You were made to worship in all the things you do every day.