They Will Know Us By Our Love

It is a simple fact.  Life is busy.  It feels like it is never ending sometimes. But Nothing could be further from the truth. As each day goes by, there are things that maybe we didn't see accomplished; often disappointing circumstances.  Then we lay our heads down at night thinking about how the day played out and of course every mistake that I made seemed to be highlighted in neon lights.  Has this ever happened to you?  Well, let me tell you, this happened more often than not, before I completely turn over the reigns of my life to Christ.

Before Christ I had no peace.  I had plenty of reasons to be happy but nothing seemed to fill the void.  Sound familiar?   After I gave my life to Jesus, even though I was grateful to leave my many burdens at the cross, I still had some learning to do.  Life didn't become perfect over night.  Why? because I had to change my mind set.  How I viewed myself and others. I needed to learn to take the scriptures and make them apart of who I am. His(God's) Words needed to become a part of me.  The Bible says that my ways are not God's ways, and my thoughts are not God's thoughts (Isaiah 55:8)

Now,  this is not to say that I wasn't grateful that Christ is now with me, I just mean that, though life was better because of the love of Christ Jesus, I had to learn how to LIVE life through Christ Jesus.  I had to learn to love like Christ does. I had to learn to see what He sees. I had to learn to live life like He lived while on this earth.  Let's look at the scripture below.

1 John 5:1-4

New Living Translation (NLT)

Faith in the Son of God

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ[a] has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. 2 We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. 3 Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.4 For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.

Loving God and keeping His Commandments is not a hard or a dictating way of life.  Living life His way through the scriptures, is freeing to us, not restricting.   

There is another aspect to take away from this scripture.  God has promised to always be with us and to never forsake us. (Deuteronomy 31:6-8) That means that there will be hard times, not always Great times.  So not only will He be with you, but He wants you connected to a body of believers so that they can be there with you when you are in need.  And then, you in turn, can pass it on. When God puts someone in your path, you can encourage and pray for that person, just as God provided someone else to be there for you.  We are not meant to be an Island. 

The way the world will really see Jesus in our life, will be us learning to show the love of Christ in everything that we do.  With His light shining through you....You can change the world !!

Blessings Friend!  Have a Blessed Day.