Wear your colors - day 44 of Love One Another

Good morning friends!

 

Today's message from Steve made me think of Green Bay Packer fans.  I am a BIG Chicago Bears fan so I don't like the Green Bay Packers very much but I have to hand it to the Packers - their fans are pretty obvious (and obnoxious)!  What is the deal with Packer fans???

 

 

You can spot them from miles away - wearing all that green and gold and those wedges of cheese on their heads.  If you run across a Packer fan - it is very, very obvious.  There is no mistake that they are different - that they have been called by some mysterious force to do really strange things to show their loyalty to their beloved Packers.

 

I wonder if that's how is should be as followers of Jesus Christ?   As "fans" of Jesus, shouldn't it be obvious to others that we are believers.  Should we wear a figurative wedge of cheese on our heads and paint our faces so people know?  Deuteronomy 6:8 tells us to "tie God's commands to our hands and bear them on our foreheads" so our families know God is our master.

 

It is clear that as believers, we are to live our lives so it is obvious to others that Christ is our Lord and Master - we are to live a holy life.

 

In parenting, in business, in casual time - in all walks of our lives - are we showing our Christian colors?   Or do we hide behind a mask of modernism during the week and then put on our "Christian face" on Sundays?  Christ has called to wear our faith at all times and to not be ashamed of it.  Mark 8:38 tells us Christ's own words, "If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

 

We believers need to not only talk the talk, we need to walk the walk - even if it means wearing a wedge of cheese on our heads.

 

Have a great day!

 

Scott

LOVE ONE ANOTHER (Day 44) > > > Are you different?

2 Timothy 1:9a

For God saved us and called us to live a holy life.

Have you ever made the team? Perhaps it was baseball or football or basketball or something like the debate team or the drama team. In any case, when you “make the team” you usually understand what you are there to do, and so it is with making Jesus’ team as a Christian: you are on the team to live a “holy life.”

In a nutshell, the word “holy” simply means to be set apart…to be different. Once God saves you from your sin, He expects you to live a different kind of life than you used to live. Your thoughts, words, and actions should all reflect the fact that somehow…you have been changed. As a result, when it comes to family life, your family should look different, act different, and sound different than most. Does it?

APPLICATION: Discuss ways that your family can be “set apart” according to what we have been learning through this devotional series. What should it look like? Sound like? Act like? Pray together and ask the Lord help you do what you need to do in order to live a more holy life.