TELL-TALE SIGNS
September 21, 2020
Prayer: Lord, please help me to allow the fruit of the Spirit to shine through me today. May I have a willingness to love even those who are unlovable. Amen.
Scripture: Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world. I Peter 2:12 NLT
I saw her in the supermarket aisle. She was smartly dressed with comfortable shoes, looking intelligent, and collecting her groceries quickly. I wondered if she might be a teacher, too. It wasn’t until I pulled my cart up behind her in the check-out line that I knew. There on her back side was the line of chalk. I knew it! No one but a teacher would have that mark.
Christians should have tell-tale marks too. Do you have identifying marks that reveal a family likeness to Christ? Do people recognize Christ by the purity of your speech? By your respectful treatment of students, by your submission to authority, by your refraining from gossip? When you sit down to lunch, do you bow and thank God for it? Are you compassionate and caring? Are you living a holy life?
By law we may be prohibited from preaching Christ, but there is no law anywhere, even in the public school, against love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control!
Copyright Shirley Wilson. Email [email protected]
Thank you for the reminder.
Hi Shirley,
Another great devotional. I will be quoting a portion of it in a sermon on being an influencer if that is okay with you. I will give you credit for the quote. Hope you are having a good day.