What does a good spy do? He spies out any and all information that’s out there. To be sneaky is an asset to a spy.
As Christians, we must act as spies. We must be sneaky in gathering all the information we can about how to best present Christ’s example to the world.
Back to that spy. What spy is going to be successful going to a foreign country wearing outrageous clothing and speaking in a foreign language? Instead, the spy needs to blend in as he chooses the information that tells the truth of what he’s been sent to learn.
We are in a foreign nation. This world is not our home. When we put off the old man, we take on the image of Christ. We are sons of God, and we claim his citizenship. We are foreigners in a foreign land.
We search for the truth of Christ in the cacophony of lies that makes up our world.
Where do we find the truth of Christ?
James 1:27 tells us we will find what we seek when we visit orphans and widows in their affliction.
Titus 2:13 assures us we will see the glory of our great God and Savior if we wait patiently on him.
Revelation 1:10 says he will be heard in a loud voice like a trumpet.
What are these verses telling us? It is simple. We will not find the truth of Christ in the brazen and flamboyant. If we chase the way the world goes, we will find the world, but we will not find truth. We must be sneaky spies, and we must look in the hidden places where the world does not seek its satisfaction, for that is where God will be found.
Hebrews 11:13 reminds us we are traveling abroad. We are strangers and exiles on this earth. It is not our home. Our purpose is not to find our niche here, but to search out the truth of God, so that we may live out his truth before those we meet every day.
Then and only then we will rise above the world, and we will be the examples to the unsaved that will bring them to Christ.
The individual truths of God absorbed through our ongoing diligence are what make us great warriors for him.
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