"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." Colossians 3:17 NKJV
This verse leads us to live our lives for Jesus, only seeking to do what Jesus would do and therefore, bring glory to His name. Let us break this verse down and examine it:
WHATEVER YOU DO Whatever means whatever. Therefore, whatever we do we need to do for Jesus. Sometimes we have to do things that we don't really want to do: (1) Clearing up the garden after the dog have done their ablutions. This is not a very nice thing to have to do but, it is important and it should be done without grumbling and blaming the dog. (2) The dog needs walking for exercise and to be able to do his business elsewhere. At times it is inconvenient to do this, especially when it is foul weather. Again, it comes under the category of 'whatever'. (3) What about decorating, cleaning the car and cutting the grass.? They are all 'whatever's' and may be high on the grumbling list but, still need doing. (4) Then there is the necessity in going to school or work when you don't feel like it and the homework or reports to write in your own time because your job's paperwork is ridiculously plentiful. There are many more 'whatever's', perhaps you can think of them in your life. They still have to be done but, the way Jesus would do them; that is doing them without complaint and thus, bringing glory to His Father.
WORD OR DEED This requires doing things according to God's Word; living the Word and by this bringing glory to the name of Jesus. Everything that we say must bring glory to Him so therefore, we discard foul words, no matter how tempted we are sometimes to use them when things go wrong. Let's remember, that we are the bible to unbelievers. They're unlikely to read one even if they have a copy. But, they do view how we handle situations. So what do they see when they observe us. Do we bring glory to Jesus?
DO ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS We should never compromise God's Word, no matter how much we feel we need to. Watering down His Word should not be in our remit. Standing up for Jesus can be costly, especially in this day of societal rights and wrongs. In many areas, one has to watch what we say or face a discrimination charge. Whatever the bible says on a certain subject is the truth and, we should stand with this. The Word of God cannot be changed to fit into someone's ideas of how we should live. We are men and women of God and need to own this label. So, whatever we do, we need to do in Jesus' name, whatever the cost. You may never have had to make a stand for Jesus. The days ahead are showing that, you are going to have to make the choice on this. The strikers are making their stand for their rights to be met; how much more do we, as Children of God, need to make our stand for our Christian beliefs. We have rights and we need to make them stick. Our society needs to know that Team Jesus is a powerful force to reckon with. We don't cower away; we stand for Jesus!
Tomorrow we will look further at more of this verse.
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