1 Peter 3:15-16
15 Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. 16 But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ.
How many times, as Christians, do we go about our day and stop the good deeds we're doing when someone walks by or gets in close proximity to us? I know I do at times. It's hard. We don't want to make a fool of ourselves or embarrass ourselves. Therefore, just in the nick of time...we stop!
How does God feel when we do this? Uh...not very important I'm thinking! We just push him to the side when someone who doesn't have the same belief and faith system comes along during the day.
This can include driving with the radio in your car blasting with Christian music and then turning it down when you pull in somewhere or praying in a public location and then when someone sees you and says hey, you just stop praying. It can really be anything.
So what should we do? Keep going! Our responsibility as a Christian is to make the non-followers wonder what all the hype is about. Make them wonder why it's so good to have an amazing God at the center of our lives and have everything revolve around it. Maybe if you do your good deeds, pray, or listen to Christian music in front of friends and complete strangers, they will feel like they have been thrown a cue card from God.
If you don't get used to people seeing you act in your faith, how will you ever GROW?
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." ~George Elliot
P.S. After writing some posts, I read the Bible and was immediately brought to Matthew 6. I think I've brought up the first few verses before (see post on February 25). I mentioned good deeds in the above lines and how you shouldn't stop doing them when you see somebody. I still don't think you should. However, don't keep doing it so you get rewarded or acknowledged. Do it because you feel led to...you feel it's coming from your heart. I hope I cleared that up!
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micheal siters was reading a small book of john last week and a girl asked what he was doing and he told her and she started asking questions about jesus and asked if he would get her that same little book. just one example of what you devotion was,
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