Daily Devotional: 3/12/2018
“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” Colossians 3:16.
The other day someone shared a picture with me saying “Just thinking… If a blind person hears me, could they tell I was a Christian? If a deaf person sees me, could they see Christ living thru me?” This is so powerful. It is one thing to believe in Christ, but it is another to live like him and to portray him in everything you do. I have been told that Christians have a certain persona about them. People say Christians are “hypocritical and judgmental.” But the one you hear more often then not, the one I heard someone say at a Bible Talk, is “Christians have that certain energy about them, they light up a room. They make you feel loved. They are always nice. They are about to make you feel welcomed no matter where you go. They make me want to stay around and talk to people.” I know people of both the former and the ladder, but I know more of the ladder. People that portray the image of Jesus are the people that are constantly in the word. They allow the message of Christ dwell in them, they allow the Word to be the light to their path. They use the Word as a guide to “teach, rebuke, correct, an train in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16); they do this not only for the sake of others but also for themselves. You have to “do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15); we are going to fail and we are going to stumble, but as long as we try our best to do the right thing God will guide us to be the men and women he wants us to be. As I write this devotional it is not by accident that “By Our Love” by for KING & COUNTRY comes on; the chorus of this song is “they will know are Christian by our love.” Today be the anomaly in this dark world, be the light in someone’s day. Spread the love of Jesus. You may be persecuted for being different from the norm, by being nice and loving others (trust me I know, even going to a Christian school people still are thrown off), but even Jesus was persecuted for doing the right thing and helping others. #LetsBeAMovement
The other day someone shared a picture with me saying “Just thinking… If a blind person hears me, could they tell I was a Christian? If a deaf person sees me, could they see Christ living thru me?” This is so powerful. It is one thing to believe in Christ, but it is another to live like him and to portray him in everything you do. I have been told that Christians have a certain persona about them. People say Christians are “hypocritical and judgmental.” But the one you hear more often then not, the one I heard someone say at a Bible Talk, is “Christians have that certain energy about them, they light up a room. They make you feel loved. They are always nice. They are about to make you feel welcomed no matter where you go. They make me want to stay around and talk to people.” I know people of both the former and the ladder, but I know more of the ladder. People that portray the image of Jesus are the people that are constantly in the word. They allow the message of Christ dwell in them, they allow the Word to be the light to their path. They use the Word as a guide to “teach, rebuke, correct, an train in righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16); they do this not only for the sake of others but also for themselves. You have to “do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15); we are going to fail and we are going to stumble, but as long as we try our best to do the right thing God will guide us to be the men and women he wants us to be. As I write this devotional it is not by accident that “By Our Love” by for KING & COUNTRY comes on; the chorus of this song is “they will know are Christian by our love.” Today be the anomaly in this dark world, be the light in someone’s day. Spread the love of Jesus. You may be persecuted for being different from the norm, by being nice and loving others (trust me I know, even going to a Christian school people still are thrown off), but even Jesus was persecuted for doing the right thing and helping others. #LetsBeAMovement
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