Faces

One day you're the Good  Lord's servant, and the next day you're a slave to sin. Daily, or even within different time spans of a single day, you take on two totally different personalities. From one side of your mouth you quote scripture as if you coauthored the Bible. Yet from the other side of that same mouth, your words are razor sharp and sinister, slicing victims apart with ferocious verbal attacks. One minute your demeanor is welcoming and open and in the next moment you don't want to be bothered with anybody and you make your 'just leave me alone' attitude quite apparent.  The people in your life don't know what to make of you. More importantly, they don't know what to make of the Christianity you represent. Try to remember you are a poster child for God. The way you handle yourself and the way you handle others has the power to draw people closer to God or the power to turn them away.  Imagine how the Lord feels when someone seeking Him gets turned off because He has been misrepresented by one of His own. That's serious business. So which will you choose to show others watching you: the face of the God or the face of God? Because as a Christian, there is really no other choice.

Scripture

I Timothy 4:12. ...be thou an example of the believers, in word

, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity

Prayer

Lord, help us to carry ourselves in ways that honor how you carry us. Amen.