Day 16 – John 7: 14-18
Who do you speak for?
As we live out our lives, talk to others, act in our communities, our lives speak loudly to those we meet. We are a species who thrives in community, interacting with others, reflecting dominant behaviours and learning from each other. It is often the people who have walked alongside us in the everyday of lives that have guided us most in our faith. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life how we live speaks volumes about the God we love, and this can be the most profound sermon that people hear.
Jesus acknowledged that His teaching was not His, but ‘His who sent me’. His words and actions spoke of God’s overwhelming love for all and this glorified God the Father. Our daily lives will reach and can influence so many people for good or bad, for the glory of God, or the glory of ourselves. The challenge we have in 21st Century living is to ask if how we live, act, and speak reflects that wonderful love of God and glorifies Him.
Mother Theresa spoke of doing ‘small things with great love’. Our life of mission is just as much in the small things that we say and do, as the events we plan in church. Say thank you, let that car out in front of you, really listen when someone talks to you, send a text to someone to let them know you are thinking of them, buy the copy of the Big Issue, buy items for the food bank when you visit the supermarket, have time for people. Consider how the sermon people hear from your life is glorifying God.
Father God, walk with us in all the small things in our lives and in the communities we live in. May what we say, how we act and live give the glory to You. Amen
by Carolyn Godfrey
North East Region
Regional Safeguarding Officer