“She (Mary) will bear a Son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins (that is, prevent their failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God)” (Matthew 1:21 amplified). Is God really the true end and scope of our lives? In listening to conversations or watching television or observing how people busy themselves, I would wonder if God is even a blink on the radar screen of most people’s minds. Would people say I reveal God as the true end and scope of my life? I believe he is, of course, but does my life reveal that message? And how would my life reveal that? What do I talk about? What do I do during my waking hours? How do I respond and react to situations? How do I communicate and commune with other people? It seems to me that if God IS the true end and scope of my life, then the fruits of the Holy Spirit would manifest themselves in all of what I do and say.
There are some folks who use “church speak” in all of their conversations that make others uncomfortable. To me that is like wearing the robes of the Pharisees, so that people can see them and be impressed. I desire to wear the sandals of the fisherman who spent time with Jesus and people would know I had been with him.
When my brother worked in a deli making submarine sandwiches all day, we always knew when he entered the house because he carried with him the aroma of where he had been. Somehow we should carry the aroma of our time spent with God as we enter places and others would know where we have been.
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