26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. ~ Matthew 23:26
One of my favorite songs is “Sometimes I Cry” by Jason Crabb. In it, he sings,
I look the part
Blend in with the rest of the church crowd
Some of us only blend into the Church, but we’re not a part of the Church. One of the scariest verses in the Bible, to me, is the parable of the goats and the sheep. See, Jesus said that at the Final Judgment, He was going to separate the sheep from the goats. The scary thing was that the goats didn’t even know they were different than the sheep. They thought they were the same, but the inside, the heart, was what separated them.
See, we can try to look the part and even act the part, but unless we live the part, it doesn’t matter. We have to do more than look like a follower of Christ; we actually have to follow Christ. We can’t live our lives one way, Monday through Saturday, catch the Spirit on Sunday, then go back to how we wanna live. Following Christ is an everyday thing that starts with the renewal of the heart and mind.
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Live The Part.
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