Living...All of the time.

Have you ever tried to write down everybody that you can remember meeting on a piece of paper? It is pretty hard. You don't realize how many people you actually have met until you look back on it. I tried to do it and it took up a quite a bit of paper. I gave up after a couple pages and that is just people I have met. This is not counting the guy at the register or people in the grocery store that you walk buy. You don't realize how many people come in contact with you on a regular basis or how many people were affected by your attitude or actions. People you may have never met in your life can be influenced by what you happened to do when you were around them one time. So what reaction would people get from how you act. As representatives of Christ, we should be representing Christ all of the time. We want people to see something different in us. We want them to see Christ in our character. Psalm 89:8 (NLT) says faithfulness is God's very character. The gospel of John says our actions are consistent with our character. We should be reflecting our faith in Jesus Christ. God wants us to have a faith in action. He wants our faith to be evident to those around us. This doesn't mean wearing bright yellow shirts and running down the street proclaiming our faith. Sometimes all we have to do is pray and ask God to use us to be a light in the world. And that may just be doing everything to the best of our abilities, with joy, and an attitude which reflects our character, which reflects our faith, which reflects Christ. It is hard. Very hard. But even just a good attitude can show something different in you to someone around you.