My Daily Revelation Journal

Okay, I confess: "My Daily Revelation Journal" is far from daily, but what I have here is a collection of thoughts I wrote about life and about faith through the years.

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Is who I am bringing people to Jesus or turning them away?

Well, I'm back again this Thursday. My blog is more of a weekly kind of deal now, but I guess it's all I have time for, sadly. But on to the important things in life...
Is who I am bringing people to Jesus or turning them away?
That's a pretty heavy question is it not? I think so. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not sure if I really completely understand it myself. But when I think about it, I think simply by taking it by it's face value and saying, is what I do in my everyday life something that brings people to Jesus or turns them away. More into it now, is who I am, something that really makes people want to know Jesus? I have become convinced that being a disciple isn't preaching the Word to all people all the time, but more showing the Word. Do I show God's Word in my actions, words? That is the risky part about being open about your faith. You will be scrutinized. People will put you under a magnifying glass watching your every move, recording every word, one false move and that's pretty much it, that person isn't convinced by you, or your faith.
I'm one of those people who wear christian themed tshirts, I have those fish decals and bumper stickers on my car. So, I think it's safe to say people notice me. They see when I have a bad day, and they remember that bad day when I have a good one. So I was thinking, and I thought up something similar to the WWJD thing, and it's just as impossible to remember and actually do, and alot less catchy, but BLJ..Be Like Jesus. Similar no? yeah it is, but i think alittle harder to do, yes. it is. I could probably sit here all night listing the qualities that make Jesus who He is to us as believers in Him....selfless, compassionate, caring, loves unconditionally, man the list goes on...my heads spinning! So I guess there's alittle change that needs to be made. Steven Curtis Chapmen gets it, He wrote a song called "The Change." here it is.

Well I got myself a T-shirt that says what I believe
I got letters on my bracelet to serve as my ID
I got the necklace and the key chain
And almost everything a good Christian needs, yeah
I got the little Bible magnets on my refrigerator door
And a welcome mat to bless you before you walk across my floor
I got a Jesus bumper sticker
And the outline of a fish stuck on my car
And even though this stuff's all well and good, yeah
I cannot help but ask myself--

What about the change
What about the difference
What about the grace
What about the forgiveness
What about a life that's showing
I'm undergoing the change, yeah
I'm undergoing the change
Well I've got this way of thinking that comes so naturally
Where I believe the whole world is revolving around me
And I got this way of living that I have to die to every single day
'Cause if God's Spirit lives inside of me, yeah
I'm gonna live life differently.

What about the change
What about the difference
What about the grace
What about the forgiveness
What about a life that's showing
I'm undergoing the change, yeah
I'm undergoing the change
(I got that out of a book...Speechless by Steven Curtis Chapmen and Scotty Smith)

Surmise what you will...

God's Blessing upon your "change"
Adam

1 Comments:

Blogger Kris said...

Adam,
I know that people watch and listen even closer to see if we are going to step off the path take a side road for a bit that isn't the way Jesus would have walked..WWJD (walk with Jesus daily!) It is hard that they will remember the bad things and not the good things in our lives (some times we ourselves dwell on them too). I know that I will step off the path...I'm a sinner, not perfect, not always going to be right, improfected. I think the main thing is to focus on how we can witness that, that we are sinners and not Jesus, but how Jesus is an important part of our lives and we should live out loud (LOL) about our faith!
Love
Kris

lots of prayers for a good job this weekend at state speech!

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