BEING THE
DIFFERENCE
Luke 8:43 And a woman who had had a flow of
blood for twelve years and had spent in doctors all that she had and could not
be healed by anyone, 44 came up to Jesus from behind and touched the Edge of
his robe, and instantly the flow of his blood ceased. 45 And Jesus said, Who is
it that touched me? While they all denied it, Peter said, and those who were
with him [t]: Master, the crowds tighten and oppress you. 46 But Jesus said,
Someone touched me, because I realized that power had come out of me. 47 When the
woman saw that she had not gone unnoticed, she came trembling, and falling down
before him, declared in the presence of all the people the reason for which she
had touched him, and how he had been immediately healed. 48 And He said to her,
"Daughter, your faith has healed you." Go in peace
We are surrounded by a world that every day wants to
consume you more and more, making you participate in its currents and making
you believe to some extent that what you do is normal because everyone does. In
the Word of the Lord we see how Jesus mentions that we must be the Salt of
the Earth, the Light of the world, in short: BEING THE DIFFERENCE.
We see the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and we can
analyze how his life is completely different from what the world was accustomed
to. He came to give us a model of life, that model that we as Christians
(followers or imitators of Jesus) must put into practice.
And is that the enemy is very clever, not for nothing the
Bible refers to him as the ancient serpent, he will try to confuse you by
making you believe that doing everything the world does nothing happens, that's
where the Church today is falling In the error of seeing things in the world as
something normal that leads her to participate in things that being sincere and
analytical we could realize that she would not have to participate.
God has
called us to be different, to show the world that we can live a holy
life that is not mixed with the profane, to prove that we are no longer the
same as before and that we have proposed in our hearts not to contaminate
ourselves with the lies of the enemy. Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to
the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of
need.
Hebrews
10:22 Let us draw near with a sincere heart, in full assurance of faith, the
hearts of evil conscience purified, and the bodies washed with pure water.
A well-known preacher in one of his books says a phrase I
like very much, I will paraphrase it: "We
see the truths of God as if they were lies and the lies of the enemy as if they
were true." And is that today it is easy to believe that a certain sin
is not because everyone does, believe that walking in places that are not those
of a child of God is not bad, because everyone goes there, believe that my
vocabulary is normal Because it looks like everyone's, even when people do not
differentiate your vocabulary from a person without Christ in their heart and a
converted person.
For God's
sake, we are doing it! Although it is true that we must go to the
world to win others to God, it does not mean that the world wins over us and
makes us one of them.
James
4: 8 - Draw near to God, and he will draw nigh unto you. Sinners, clean your
hands; And you double-minded, purify your hearts.
It is time for us to wake up and realize that we have
been called to BE DIFFERENT, we have
been called to testify to the world that Christ can transform the lives
of those who seek Him from the heart, we need to stand up and show with our
attitudes, our Way of speaking and directing ourselves in the life that we are
Christians born again.
Have you proposed in your heart to make the difference in
an indifferent world? Let us ask the Lord to place in our hearts a desire and a
determination to live each day of our existence remembering that we have been
called to make the difference.
Come on! Let's show the world that Christ has
changed our lives!
