I am a Witness

Have you considered that if you are a follower of Jesus Christ that you have a responsibility - a job that Christ left His disciples until He returns?  Most of us take the time to fulfill our responsibilities and yet we think very little about what Christ said to His disciples in Acts 1:8.  He told them that they would be His witnesses.  His martyrs.   That by their lives or deaths they were to testify to the truth found in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.  This is what we are to do. 

Paul reminds of this truth in 1 Corinthians 11 as well when he reminds us that every time we partake of communion we are proclaiming the Lord's death until He comes.  This puts into perspective for us how we often engage life and our relationship with God.  We tend to live and act as though God is a part of what we do, but often the part that gets put last.  We are called to think like Christ and yet we only think about it when we need something.  We do not strive to think like Christ while we have things handled ourselves and so we wind up testifying to our great strategic thinking.  We are called to show love like Christ and yet when we show love we tend to do so with the goal in mind that people will like us better and so again testify more about us than we do about Christ. 

At the end of the day perhaps we should evaluate our day on how well we testified to Christ on any given day.  Was today about me or was today about Christ?  In doing so we shift how we look at each day. Perhaps this will lead to a better start to my day?  Perhaps it will lead to a better perception of who I am and why I am here.  But regardless we can know that we are fulfilling the purpose for which God has placed us on this earth if we witness to Christ during every available opportunity!