Let’s play a little game of pretend
for just a minute;
·
You and your wife both smoke. You don’t smoke in
the house; you step out onto the porch. Nor do you smoke in the car. You both
also make it a point to tell your kids how bad smoking is for them.
·
You are driving to a local shopping center with
your son so that you can teach him to drive in the unused areas of the parking
lot. You’re talking with him on the way about his future driving. You get
pulled over by the police for not only running through a stop sign, but also
for speeding.
·
You talk to your children about the need to go
to church. Your wife takes them every Sunday while you are out golfing with
your buddies.
·
You try to give the impression that you are
serious about being a Christian, yet when a project you are working on doesn’t
come all together and the boss has indicated his displeasure, you go ballistic,
and your language is definitely not nice.
·
All of your friends have commented about how
your family seems so nice, that it’s nice to see a man so devoted to his wife
and children. One day there is front page news in the local paper that you have
been busted for possessing porn on your computer.
Is there a common thread throughout
those pretend scenes? Of course there is. In each one, which could apply to any
number of us, there are 2 different lives being lived—the one we want to
project, and the one we really are.
When it comes to our efforts to be
a witness to others, there is no room for two of us. There can only be one—the real
man that we are if we are serious about or efforts. Others see who, and what,
we really are. It is by that observation that they determine whether to trust
us or not, just as their observation may be the only one that might cause them
to come to Christ. We not only have to talk the talk, we have to walk the walk.
Bottom Line Thought:
Are you very careful in every aspect of your life, realizing that you may well
be the reason for someone being saved?
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