What Is The Testimony Of Your Life?
Aug 6, 2018 8:58:02 GMT -5
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Post by tlsitd on Aug 6, 2018 8:58:02 GMT -5
Every person who has truly been born again has a testimony of his or her conversion, and could and would eagerly share it with anyone. But what about our life testimony as Christians? Every true Christian is a living witness to Jesus Christ and to the one true God by his or her ways and deeds. Or at least we should be---if we are keeping in step with the Spirit and living unto God as we were called to do. So ask yourself, are you a living testimony to Jesus Christ---to the living God, as He is?
Do your ways and deeds testify to His righteousness?
To His love?
To His holiness?
To His hatred of evil?
To the power of His grace to do, to overcome, and to endure all things according to His will?
To the joy of knowing and living for Jesus?
Is what you are presenting in your body to the world as you live in the world day to day a testimony of what God is and what He does in the people in whom He dwells according to the Scriptures? Does the world see God's transforming grace and His glory when it looks at you and me? It should, or else we're not doing what we should be and what God expects of us, and we need to earnestly seek the Lord to make things what they should be, living mindful of and in subjection to the God for whom we live and who we are called to bear witness to.
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 5:13-16)
...You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
...Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:9,11,12)
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. (1 John 3:1)
...Because as He is so also are we in this world. (1 John 4:17)
...Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. (2 Corinthians 4:10,11)
...And He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised. (2 Corinthians 5:15)
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works. (Titus 2:11-14)
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)
Do your ways and deeds testify to His righteousness?
To His love?
To His holiness?
To His hatred of evil?
To the power of His grace to do, to overcome, and to endure all things according to His will?
To the joy of knowing and living for Jesus?
Is what you are presenting in your body to the world as you live in the world day to day a testimony of what God is and what He does in the people in whom He dwells according to the Scriptures? Does the world see God's transforming grace and His glory when it looks at you and me? It should, or else we're not doing what we should be and what God expects of us, and we need to earnestly seek the Lord to make things what they should be, living mindful of and in subjection to the God for whom we live and who we are called to bear witness to.
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 5:13-16)
...You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
...Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:9,11,12)
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. (1 John 3:1)
...Because as He is so also are we in this world. (1 John 4:17)
...Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. (2 Corinthians 4:10,11)
...And He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised. (2 Corinthians 5:15)
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works. (Titus 2:11-14)
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)