Angels walking....

Angels walking.....

I just finished a fictional book by Karen Kingsbury, "Angels Walking"...my message from the  book was that our calling is to be real rather than rely on our job as our identity ......

Then at church the pastor spoke on the same theme, our calling is to serve God first....not relying on our identity from which we work.....we need to realize who we are in Christ...

So many of us tend to look at what we do, our jobs, our vocations to really define us rather than the Person of Christ...do others know me as a Christian first above the other things I do ?  Or am I just known as a person that does not portray Christ?....could my testimony as a Christian stand up in a court??

Whoa...or was my husband known as a giver or geologist first??  At his memorial services, he was known as a giver, and even that idea was exemplified at a honor dinner for our alma mater...much to his surprise.....

Our jobs, our impact on the world, our calling  are all wrapped up in a package it seems, but the standout is whom we serve and whose we are...

Thank YOU helping us define whose we are and whom we serve...Help me to have it in order...that I am a Christian first....

Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 

Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 

Hebrews 13:1-5 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,“Never will I leave you;never will I forsake you.” 

1 Corinthians 12:4-7, 12, 18 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 

But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.