How Are You Living Your Life?
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There is a verse in 1 Thessalonians that I want you to think about. It is a verse that, if you are not careful, you could easily zip right past and miss what I believe is an important truth. Here is the verse:
One of the best ways we can live among others is to live humbly, or as I say live below. We used to have this saying when I worked in sales and you were dealing with a potential customer, always be one down. Meaning even if you know more, don’t make the customer feel like you are better than they are. We must recognize the value that every person has and see them in that light. In the age of self-promotion we live in, humility is a lost art. But know for certain it is still something that God honors.
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There is nothing worse than being inconsistent. One day you are one person and the next day you are someone else. This type of living is confusing to people and does nothing to endear them to Christ. James 1:8 reminds us that a double-minded man is unstable in everything he does. Live in such a way that through the ups and downs of life, people will see your consistency. When this happens, they see God’s grace and power in action in your life.
The thing that ties all of this together is the reason behind it all. If you remember, in the verse Paul gives us the source of the motivation for the way they lived – it was their concern. The reason Paul and Silas chose to live the way they did among the people of Thessalonica, is because they cared about them. It was for their sake they chose to live this way, not for their own benefit. They were not interested in themselves, they were concerned about the people.
We don’t often talk about sacrifice anymore in this Christian journey, but true love for the people around you will cause you to sacrifice because you care about them. Paul lived this in front of them because he cared about them. As Christians, let’s live upright before people not just for our own good but for the good of those around us.
I want to leave you with what happened because of how they lived before them.
They preached the gospel with power and lived right before them, and because of this the gospel was received with joy and they became trophies and instruments of God’s grace. This church thrived because of how these men lived among them. Nothing in the way they lived interfered with the message they were preaching. I hope that truth resonates with you, and I will ask you the one question I did at the beginning, how are you living?
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