Making Room

The longer we walk with Christ the more apt we are to expect more "Christ-like" behavior from our fellow believers. The truth of the matter is that we are all at different levels in our spiritual walk. Some learn quickly out of a zeal for the Word, while others may not yet have that zeal.  It doesn't mean they won't get it, it just may take some folks longer.

As seasoned, believers we need to be tender and forgiving, speaking the truth in love. After all who wants to learn from a person who tries to pound information into them?  Who wants to be wants to be around someone who is condescending?

Jesus said that it was the mark of a disciple to love one another. And even though some of our family members do not yet know Christ how will they ever even want to if they do not see the love of God demonstrated in our home and observe what they may see or hear about in the church, the body of Christ?

We see in the new testament that so and so was saved and their household. Certainly those early believer's  lives were changed so radically the others in the house hold desired that joy, and peace.

 We should ask ourselves are we living our lives in such a way that our unsaved loved ones can truly see a difference? If not, why not? Perhaps we are having a form of godliness but not walking in the power of it.

Prayer: Father please help me to be more like You. Though I am not perfect and I stumble many times,  let me quickly repent and let my unsaved loved ones see the impact of the Holy Spirit in my life.



Colossians 3:12-14
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

 

Acts 16:33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.

 

John 4:29  “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

John 4:39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.”