How You Walk?

Proverbs 27:19
As water reflects a face,
so a man's heart reflects the man.

The Bible is clear that the way you walk will be a true reflection of your heart. It's easy these days to talk a big talk, but in the end your reflection will be shown through your actions. Words can be deceptive, misleading, rationalizing...But our actions are the very words that the heart will speak.

How are you as a Christian living your life out before the eyes of the world? Are you living with the reflection of Christ or with the reflection of the world? Do you have a hunger for God's Word, God's holiness, a desire that all you do, you do it for the glory of God? How long have you been a Christian? Over time have you changed? Are you becoming a Romans 12 Christian?

You see, when God saved you He doesn't just leave you alone. Imagine a child going to kindergarten for the first time, do you just pull up and drop them off and say, have a great day and I'll see you after school gets out. If you get lost just ask a stranger for directions. Does this seem correct? NO WAY that would be a major disaster, quite possibly that child would never want to go back. My point is this, if God is going to save you from His wrath through the blood of Christ, wouldn't He change you to be more like Christ? Wouldn't God give you a new heart with new desires, new joys, a new attitude, a new song in your heart?

God gives us everything we need, His Son, His Word, His Holy Spirit as tools that will help us along the path of life when we choose to live for Him. Over time we as Christians should be seeing some change come into our lives. We start to do things differently, talk differently, handles problems differently. We see the world through new eyes. Our heart starts to beat for the lost. Our greatest desire is to be sold out for the greater cause of Christ. Our love for the things of this world fade, and our love for the Lord increases.

We can only be two types of Christians.

• "FC" - fake Christian
• "LC" - Legit Christian

We as Christians should be living in a way that reflects the image, the love, the mercy, the grace of Christ. We should be growing up into mature Christians, Christians that would look and act that they belong to God's church. Let’s be 2 Timothy 2:15. Let’s be pure and holy, set apart to do God's work.

God elects (chosen), then justifies (declared guiltless), then sanctifies (make holy), then glorifies (reign with Christ) us in the life to come.

Bottom line is if your faith has not changed you, it has not saved you. Meaning if your a "LC" on Sundays, but Monday through Saturday your an "FC" there is a real problem. Let's abide in Jesus' Words. We are only fooling ourselves if we think that the impure things, impure people of this life are fit for God's Kingdom! So ask yourself, are you fit for God's Kingdom?

Reflection of Change, do you see it?

As I look back over that last 8 years I see areas where I experienced more change then in others. I don't think I changed at all when I first got back into Church. I still drank the same, said the same off colored jokes, all the things that would seem normal to this life, I did it.

Real Christlikeness change started happening when I took my relationship with Him much more seriously. When I realized how important Christ was, and how His precious words did not match up to my lifestyle, I knew the only thing I had been doing was running His name through the mud. At the same time looking like a fool.

This morning I find myself reflecting on 2 Corinthians 5:17 which says: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Everything about me is different. My thinking, my responses, even my walk with the Lord is different. I find my delight in the law of the Lord, and on His law I meditate day and night. God is my fortress. In Him is where I find my strength, my wisdom, the courage to stand firm in His ways. My old way of living was only leading me to death.

We can also read in Ephesians 4:17-32 about what this new life looks like.

So is your life becoming more and more like Christ?

Could you write down 3 things that the Lord is working in you right now?

Would your friends notice a change in you since you came to know the Lord?

Are you one that only looks to Christ for your "free ticket" to heaven? Is sanctification a process that is evident in your life?

Has anyone arrived yet? I haven't!

Are you enjoying the process of life? Are you preparing for that day when Christ will be revealed?

Are you ready to stand before the judgment seat of Christ and give an account of the life you lived or wasted?

Romans 12:1-2 says: I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Are we really worshipping Christ with our hearts, or just our lips?

Would you act differently in a situation if your pastor showed up? If you answered yes, then brothers and sisters in Christ, It's time to change your lives, your thinking, your purpose. Live your life in a way that glorifies God.

Meditate on 1 Corinthians 10:31. Is this evident in your life?
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.