Our Christian walk is all about face value. Is the Christ we speak the same Christ we live? When we counsel our non-Christian friends with Godly advice, do we exhibit those same characteristics in our daily walk?
We know the story of the little boy who cried wolf. He said one thing, but the truth was entirely different. He called, “Wolf,” when all he wanted was attention. When the wolf actually showed up, no one believed in him any longer.
We must be the rock in Jesus that allows others to find their faith in Christ through the example we live out. Our example must match what we say we are.
Paul says it like this in 2 Corinthians 2:17:
“For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”
Have we cried, “Be kind to your neighbor,” even as we bring a lawsuit against our own? Have the words, “Two become one,” escaped our lips as our divorce papers percolate in the courts?
Our ministry is how we live. If we claim Christ, and we alienate our children, how have we shown the love of Jesus? How have we raised up our progeny in the way of the Lord so that they will not depart from it? We’ve cried wolf, and the world will not want to know our Savior.
We must not be like the world, for they do this all the time. Paul says it like this: “For we are not as many, which corrupt the Word of God.”
The Bible is truth. Truth, however, is discovered through the eye of the beholder. It remains truth, but it can only be seen when we are receptive. We must speak “sincerity…as of God, in the sight of God speak…Christ.”
When Christ shines in everything we do, our face value will skyrocket. We will live the Christ we speak. We will exhibit Jesus in the life we live. When we cry, “Christian,” people will believe us, because we are living what we proclaim. We will have become exactly what we seem to be: Christians, Christ-like, and full of his gracious love.
When we say we’re Christians, let’s live like we mean it.
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