OUCH!!! That's a good reminder that people judge us by our actions just as much as by our words. I have often heard my brother preach that if you truly are a born again covenant believer in Christ you are someone else's Bible because they may not go to church or even believe in the Bible but they're watching you.
A few years ago I meet an elderly man and he told me how much respect he had for my grandfather. He said that he had started watching my grandfather's life many years earlier because he just knew that nobody could live up to what my grandfather was preaching. He said that he watched my grandfather for over 40 years until the time my grandfather passed on to his reward (over 20 years prior). The man said that in over 40 years he never once seen anything that he could use to say "see there I knew he couldn't be living up to what's he's preaching". I told the man that although my grandfather was the most righteous man that I ever knew he would often say that he came up short. He would tell us all the time not to put our trust in man because man will let you down but to only put our trust in God. I remember thinking how great of a testimony it was that my grandfather had passed away more then 20 years earlier and this man still remember the example my grandfather had put forth by the life he led.
We can tell others about Gods love, grace, and mercy until we're blue in the face but are our actions showing others Gods love, grace, and mercy?🤔🤔🤔
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I want to end by giving honor where honor is due. Thank you Abba Father for keeping your hand upon me and my life. Thank you Jesus for being my Lord and Savior and for dying on the cross so that I could have eternal life. Thank you Holy Spirit for giving me guidance, discipline, comfort, and for being so much more to me than just a tongue talker.
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