Who Are You Reppin’?
1 Peter 4:8-10 (Amplified Bible)
8Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and [a]disregards the offenses of others].
9Practice hospitality to one another (those of the household of faith). [Be hospitable, be a lover of strangers, with brotherly affection for the unknown guests, the foreigners, the poor, and all others who come your way who are of Christ's body.] And [in each instance] do it ungrudgingly (cordially and graciously, without complaining but as representing Him).
10As each of you has received a gift (a particular spiritual talent, a gracious divine endowment), employ it for one another as [befits] good trustees of God's many-sided grace [faithful stewards of the extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by unmerited favor].
I had the opportunity to speak with a dear friend of mine today. We were reminiscing over times past. We happened on a time when we worked together, and I use to try to witness and encourage her and some other young ladies about Christ and about His love and expectations for us. When they needed someone to pray they would “b-line” for me, but when it came to getting down to hear what God wanted of them, I now felt as if I had grown two heads and an extra set of eyes that were green. I never pushed, but would always pray that the example I lived and the words spoken would be enough one day to affect their lives to come to Christ and to fully submit to them. This friend I thank God is one such product of God’s faithfulness and prayers in that area and there are others. As we spoke she was now relaying to me that people were seeing a change in her and that she was now sowing seeds into others and watching the seeds grow.
During this conversation she shared how God had showed her some ungodly characteristics that she once possessed; I laughed thinking to myself we all have those. But the difference is when we begin to submit and yield to God through the Holy Spirit we now give Him access to our inner most places and He is able to really show us ourselves, the good, the bad, in-between and the ugly. What we are showing people ( in our living, speaking and doing) shows the really content of who we serve and who we belong to. If anger is our natural reaction, we may still be giving too much place to the enemy, or we may still have too much self that we have not allowed God to deal with and deliver us from. If we are selfish and stingy we are worried about preserving our own and God has not become our provider we are still handling it. We are constantly walking in fear and anxiety, faith is not our motto so we have not gotten to the point of trusting and yielding to the Holy Spirit, in order for us to live in peace. If we are saying Lord, Lord our life should be speaking the same. We should not be reppin’ self and claiming God, nor should we be reppin’ God and claiming it was in our own power that things were done.
Today let who you rep be evident in your words and in your lifestyle. Don’t be double minded and unstable in your living. Let those around you either see you and hear you or see God and hear Him too! If we are following Christ let all we do bring Glory and Honor to the kingdom and to the King!
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