Be Jesus

Growing membership at St Mark's .... Sophia and Solomon have big plans for the WA. There's a meeting after church on Sunday for all ladies interested in joining.

28 September 2011

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

Being a Christian is made complicated by the expectations that others place on us and those we place on ourselves. Asked the question, ‘do you want to serve Jesus Christ?’ all believing Christians answer, ‘yes’. When asked how they will do this, most look to some exotic answer such as to win souls for Christ, study to be a Pastor. Yet is this what Jesus expects of us? Most of us have to work, have children, build a home, have friends, and we need to be able to do so. So being a Christian for me is to accept where Jesus Christ has placed me and being obedient to that to do my best in living the Christian life in that place.

So if I am an accountant, I become a Christian accountant and so serve my clients as if each were Jesus Christ personally, in the same way I become a Christian Doctor, Lawyer, house executive, mother, father, what I then do, I do to the glory of Jesus Christ. We then learn to serve Jesus, by serving others, and what better way to do it than through touching people through what we are trained and taught to do. We use kind words, patiently and with tolerance of others short comings, we help them in ways that if we were in their situation we would like to be helped. This becomes so part of us that after awhile this is our nature and we are transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ in the place where Jesus wants us to be.

Be encouraged today to be Christ to others, where you are.

David

Point to ponder: the  Jesus in you is the only Jesus people will meet.  

  

Question to consider: Are you Jesus in the world?