Honestly now, who are you?
That charming church member who greets everyone warmly at the church door? Are you the same when your spouse walks through the door after work?
You’re generous when the offering plate comes down the pew … how about when your brother is in a financial jam?
You decry off-color songs from your children at home … but what about when you’re alone in the car?
You quote positive affirmations to your coworkers … yet your words to yourself repeatedly sink your mood.
Colossians 3:9-11 (NIV) spells out what Christ expects from us:
“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.”
It’s vital we live in truth. Be who we appear to be. Toss off old behaviors of saying one thing and living another. Refuse to let ourselves fall into old and negative patterns.
When you catch yourself slipping back into the old you, seek God’s direction on how to navigate your new path. Take time to pause, pray, and allow God to redirect your path.
Then do it all over again if you sense it happening once more. God doesn’t condemn you. He sincerely desires you to turn to him each and every time you desire his help.
God’s transformative love awaits you. Each time. Every time.
Give God a chance, and he will create in you a “new self … in the image of [your] Creator.”
Now is your time for honesty, to live an upfront, just-as-you-are life. Be the person Christ desires you to be. Be the person inside that you live on the outside.
When we live like Christ, we become Christ unto the world, and that’s good for everyone.
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