What Do You Bring?
This morning, I’m continually coming back to the question of “what do you bring?”
This question is not focused on what we bring to a dinner party or family Christmas gathering. The question is simply about what we bring into this life.
Do we reflect the Kingdom or something else? Are our lives marked by joy, peace, love, mercy, courage, patience, etc? Are we making this world a better place?
Unfortunately, the world often sees those within the Church as being judgmental and hypocritical. Of course, we do make judgments from time to time (we are simply permissive of all things…we have to draw some lines because not every thing is good). And, we all fall short and give the appearance of being hypocrites.
However, I believe that we should be so filled with love, joy, peace, grace, and the like that it overshadows our shortcomings. We should be known more for our love (I believe we were told something about how people will know we’re with Jesus by the way we love one another) than any thing else.
So, what do you bring? Joy? Peace? Love? Mercy? Patience? How can you bring these things into the world today?