‘Many Christians forget that they are bearing a testimony, they do not think that anybody notices them …but they do.’ - Charles Spurgeon

Every life bears witness to that which we worship. ‘Keep your heart with all vigilance,’ the writer of the Proverb tells us, ‘for from it flow the springs of life (Pr 4:23).’ What sits at the center will flow outward in thought, word, and deed. (Matt 12:35, Col 3:17).

Your life has never been hidden from the view of God. Your frame was not hidden from Him when you were being made in secret, His eyes saw your unformed substance, in His book, was written the days formed for you when there was not a single one (Ps 139:14-16). You cannot escape the gaze of the gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, God (Ex 34:6).

Now as a city set on a hill, your life is the light of the world (Matt 5:14). But the Christ-follower is called not only to personal faith but called to be a people (1 Pet 2:9-10). Jesus said, ’By this, all people will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one another (Jn 13:35).’

All people will know requires individual sanctification lived as a people who love, forgive, and are at peace with one another (Jn 13:35, Eph 4:32, Rom 12:18). This is the ‘…aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life…’ (2 Col 2:15-16).

Lord, we confess that people know Christ-followers for many things, but ‘loving one another,’ is probably not at the top of the list. Help us walk with You, with one another as salt and light, the fragrance of life, a city on a hill. In Your name, amen.

Aware,