Today's Devotional Written From The Pages and Life of Tracy A. Dixon, Wonderful Woman, Daughter, Mother and Wife!
Contagious or Contaminated?
2 Timothy 3:12-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12Indeed all who delight in piety and are determined to live a devoted and godly life in Christ Jesus will meet with persecution [will be made to suffer because of their religious stand]. 13But wicked men and imposters will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and leading astray others and being deceived and led astray themselves.14But as for you, continue to hold to the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced, knowing from whom you learned [them],15And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].
Last week we brought Jaida a dog to help with the transition of Shane going on deployment to Afghanistan for 7 months. When I went to pick him up, I was told that he had kennel cough and could not be around other dogs; he was okay to be around humans because his cough had no actual affect on people. Well, it wasn't until last night that I realized some Christians are the same way.
Some Christians can quote scriptures, speak in tongues and shout with the best of them....as long as they are with other Christians. They are contagious in their praise and vocal in their gratefulness, as long as they are in the presence of the saints. The problem however, is that the moment they are put in the presence of non-believers they have no influence, no power, and no witness. In some cases, the non-believer begins to influence them.
So the question becomes are you a contagious Christian or a contaminated one? When you walk in the midst of darkness does a light shine, or is your light overcome by the darkness? When you speak into the atmosphere do giants fall down, or do they knock you down? When you worship does God commune back with you, or does He say depart from Him because He knows you not? Being a Christian means to be like CHRIST, morning, noon and night. If people feel its okay to drink, smoke and curse around us we may not be doing that.
Today decide to go all in for Christ despite your circumstance, situation or audience. Determine in your heart to make God smile upon your living, your giving, your witness, your worship and your example of who He is. You don't get any credit or even a passing grade for living the life in front of believers. Remember growing up and asking to go to your friends house and hearing this, "You better not embarrass me when you get out of this house." Well, God is saying the same thing. Don't leave the house of God and then act a plum fool in the streets. The people that need the light, are the ones in the dark trying to find their way back home.
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