"I like your Christ.
I do not like your Christians.
They are so unlike your Christ.
Ghandi
Sad, isn't it? It's a challenge to let Jesus live through us, so people can actually see Him in us.
For some reason it reminded me of this post about art and worship that I wanted to share with you today. I am not a dancer, but in some sense of the word I am an artist, and so much of this post applies to what I do--to what any of us do. It's about living for the glory of God and doing whatever we do for Him, be it a student recital or playing an instrument or working in the garden. I've read it at least three times now.
"Jesus, help me to make something beautiful for You. In this poem. In this bit of earth. In this story. In this cake or loaf of bread or painting or song. Not only can I not do it truly, essentially, without You. I can’t do it for You without You." --Lanier
3 comments:
It is far too often true that we fail to follow Christ. I hardly think Ghandi was a good critic of that though. Answers has this statement about him: "Truth for Gandhi was not an abstract absolute but a principle which had to be discovered experimentally in each situation." Christ was not that kind of God. I'm not even sure Ghandi thought of Christ as God. Ghandi chose to focus on certain aspects of Christ's manhood and His ministry and reject others. He did not worship God as He really is. Where Ghandi's quote leads us to evaluate our lives and take them back to the Bible, it may be profitable. But we must go to God's Word to discover Christ.
Lanier's post is well worth reading. Thank you for posting the link. I visit her site sporadically, and in doing so often miss much worth reading. She beautifully addresses the minute practicalities of "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do," -- all things practical, artistic, and everything else -- "do all to the glory of God." If we as Christians truly grasp the importance of every task done for God with His help, evaluated according to His Word, then our lives will truthfully testify of Christ. They'll see Jesus in us. His truth just may not always be what they want to see and hear.
Hmm, good thoughts...
Amen..
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