"God saves a man and endues him with the Holy Spirit, and then says in effect - "Now work it out, be loyal to Me, whilst the nature of things round about you would make you disloyal." "I have called you friends." Stand loyal to your Friend, and remember that His honour is at stake in your bodily life." (Oswald Chambers)
Jesus' honor is at stake in my life. That is pretty heavy, in fact it is so heavy that I really don't want to think about it a lot. Of course I do not want to dishonor His name, so I won't rob any banks today or kill anyone purposefully, but will people know that I am truly a Christ follower?
So I will not berate the produce clerk in Harris Teeter because the cauliflower is not fresh, or sit on my horn at the roundabout when the little old lady from New York won't move, even though I may want to. I especially won't do those things while wearing my St. Simons Community Church tee shirt or displaying the silver fish symbol on the back of my car.
Peter proclaimed loudly that he would never forsake Jesus and would even die for Him, but then ran away. I can dishonor Jesus just as much by keeping silent when a word is called for or for refusing to give even a cup of cold water in His name.
I can dishonor by a word, or lack of, by an action, or lack of, or by an attitude, or lack of. Those things in my everyday life, be they big or small, are arrows, either pointing toward the Savior or away from Him.
This may be an ordinary day, but I want to live it in an extraordinary way. I've even got my SSCC tee shirt on.
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