Jealousy, pride, envy…. it’s all around us! One betrays his brother out of jealousy or some sort of pride. It even often seeps into our families:
Daughters lecturing their mothers…
Mothers disregarding daughters…
Sons disregarding fathers…
Fathers neglecting families…
Everyone disregarding the poor… our very own brothers and sisters…
“Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness.”
(1 Samuel 24: 13)
Therefore, out of the RIGHTEOUS comes forth RIGHTEOUSNESS. If this passage holds truth, then why don’t we bring this truth into our homes; into our hearts (for HOME is where the HEART is)? And if this is true, then why don’t we bring it into our communities?
If “out of the wicked comes forth wickedness,”
and out of the righteous comes forth righteousness,
then…
OUT OF CHRISTIANS MUST COME FORTH CHRIST.
Sin is inevitable – I say that more than enough times – but what defines us is how we act and react in the face of sin. The constant mindset I must carry must be this: how can I be like Christ? It really takes it back to grade school with WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) It is a constant “mantra” that acknowledges that it is not enough to call ourselves CHRISTIANS; Christianity must be lived out! We must live out Christ in our lives so that as Christians…
We may truly “BE AND BRING CHRIST WHEREVER WE ARE” to allow “EVERY SINGLE MAN AND WOMAN ALL OVER THE WORLD TO EXPERIENCE CHRIST!”
