It is
so easy to live spiritually when sitting at a cafe sipping a coffee or while
the great preachers of our time captivate us with their intoxicating
messages. What happens though when your
co-worker cheats you out of your bonus or your dad ignores your
accomplishments? How well does your spirituality
fly when the sales team meets together at a local club; what sort of religion
do you possess as the argument in the kitchen spins out of control? Where is your love for God when you are
disappointed, frustrated or filled with itching desire? Christianity is not a religion of clear
mountain streams and golden sunsets. It
is the blossoming faith of those who face connivers and debaters and humilators
and wreckers of days. Christianity is
for the tele-conference, the sales floor, for the Google search and the
hospital waiting room, for the shattered dream and the wasted day. Christianity is for all those times you feel
angry and confused and tempted and proud.
We do not read the Bible and pray and pay attention to anointed sermons
to be able to live on pause spiritually until the next time we can relax with
God. The Lord gives us His power and
conviction so that we might express His life in us at the darkest and ugliest
moments and rather than just be ourselves, we find we are more than ourselves,
we are Christ joined to us in holy revelations of God's glory. Of course we can't forgive our mother but
Christ in us can. Of course we can't say
"no" to one more drink or having the last word but Christ in us
can. Of course we can't be kind when we
have been ignored or belittled but Christ in us can. Every place we go and each circumstance we
face is an opportunity for Christ to shine more brightly through us than ever
and for our character to be upgraded into a purer form of godliness. Nothing surprises Satan more than Christ suddenly
showing up where He hasn't been noticed before. Who better to make Him known than you,
who better to reveal His power than you when no one expects to find Him in the
room?
And
he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things
ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading
for Jerusalem. Luke 9:52-54 NIV
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