The Picture: Our Daily Reflection

One day we will all be a picture on someone's wall. Or maybe in a wallet, or in a frame on the table in someone's drawing room.

When people see the picture what will they remember? Success? Failure? Honesty? Gratitude?

I think none of the above. But they will see another picture in their minds - a picture based on characteristics exhibited by us, hopefully of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

How will we rate against these characteristics? What will our picture communicate to those who see it? Will it inspire the viewer to inculcate those traits, or will it inspire nothing?

Whatever it inspires is the legacy we will have left behind.

It is this nature that will define whether our profession of Christianity has been successful. Those who are in Christ are distinguished from unbelievers in that they have been gifted with the Holy Spirit, enabling them to bear fruit, that is the fruits of the Spirit. Our belief that we do have these is only a belief. The truth will be when others experience them in us, through our life.

Matthew 7:16-17 says - Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

So, what will we be? Will we be a picture on the wall or a picture in someone's heart? The choice is ours.