Between Christmas & Easter: Our Daily reflection

1 Corinthians 11:1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
1 John 2:3-6 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. ...

In one week it will be Christmas Eve and then another Christmas day. Christ was born, Christ lived, and Christ died. Three important milestones. The world celebrates His birth and mourns His death, but do we celebrate the life of Christ?

Jesus life on earth is a picture of how God wants mankind to live. He was and is an example before us. World over we celebrate His birth and death, but true followers celebrate Him by following His life throughout the year.

BBreon Wells, in Life for Leaders, says - "The best way to commemorate the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is to live how he lived every day. Jesus’ life was not comfortable, and sacrifice was the theme of his existence. Every action he did was on behalf of others. He was not building for himself, not trying to achieve success (after all, he was already successful), nor was he lording his status over anyone. At all points he was a servant, driven by his mission to reconcile humanity back to the Father. Those of us who are Christ followers must commemorate Christ’s life by living our lives totally for God, and not for ourselves. As disciples, let’s celebrate Christ correctly."

And that is the tough part. The truth is that following Him leads to difficult choices. Sometimes turning back may seem very appealing, or "practical" in our heads. Not only big things, small as well. As small as overlooking spending time with God because we have more important stuff to attend to. Or not paying attention to work that we may have been called upon to do so in our respective jobs. Making excuses, and so many more. 

We need to ensure that we are true followers in small and big things - integrity at our place of work, making tough decisions even at the cost of being unpopular or maligned, not gossiping, politicking and so much more. When we follow Jesus, we need to showcase Him in our lives and the way we live. 

The first step to ensuring the above is to sync up our plans with Gods plan for us and we shall cover this tomorrow.