Are you living It?

I have mentioned this one good Switchfoot lyric before, but this time I mean to look at it differently. It goes; This is your life, Are you who you want to be? Even though this is a really good self evaluating motivator I think that as Christ followers we should probably look at it a little differently. What we should maybe ask instead is; This is Christ's life, Are you living it? See, as disciples of Christ we are trying to become more like Him and we have given our lives up to Him. So in a profound deepness the life we "have" is really Christ's life, but are we living it?

Are we living for Christ? Are we living the life He has for us? Are we living the life that Christ lived? He taught those who would listen and those who would not listen about the Father and eternal life. He cared for the sick, the poor, and the cast outs. By cast outs I mean adulterers, stealing and dishonest tax collectors, and the unclean lepers. He cared for them because He loves them and He knew that they could be made new, that they could receive eternal life and a relationship with Christ. He got dirty and laid down His time, His life to serve those who needed saved and to show the way to the Father. He glorified His Father with everything He did.

Once again I must ask, are we living as Christ did? As Christ followers we are trying to become a mirror image of the one who made us in His image? Do we love the destitute, the poor, the sick, the lonely, the adulterer, the lier, the drunkard, the dishonest salesman, the homosexual, the man next door, the annoying one, the creepy one? Yes I know its not easy to love those people and we probably don't want to. However, we must realize they are just like us except for one thing, they don't have Christ in their life. They don't have the Spirit of God inside of them. Only until you see them as they are will you  start to love them. When you realize that they are just like lost sheep trying to find their way in life. They don't know their full purpose in life, but we do. We are living for Christ and we know that it is all worth it. We have experienced and felt His amazing love. We have tasted the living water, we know what it means to really live.

They don't know true love, they don't know true life. Are we going to show it to them? God is the one who possesses and grants the love and life, we are merely the ones displaying the glory and love of the Father just like Jesus.

This is Christ's life, are you living it? Are you living as Christ profoundly did, are you glorifying God, are you displaying His love to the nations?