To Live as Christ

How many of us have seen or worn the WWJD bracelets? It’s a good motto to live by! In the Christian Church we are taught that the reflection of our life would emanate Christ. So we ask our selves What Would Jesus Do? Or do we?

How many of us can truly say we live as Christ? What would that look like? Read through the Gospels! Living as Christ would be to live with love! Not just loving our family and friends but loving our enemy, loving those that look different and act different, loving those who harm us or do us wrong. It’s loving when we don’t want to and loving when it’s hard. In Christ’s dying moments he said to the Father “Forgive them for they do not know what they are doing!” He lived in love until his dying breath.

To live like Christ means to live out his purpose in your life. God has called us for a unique purpose! He has called us to serve him with our own unique gifts and talents. I could take up a whole blog post just talking about how we all are given spiritual gifts from the Lord. When we walk in those gifts we are serving him, we are living as Christ.

Living as Christ means selflessness! How many times do we justify the reasons why we don’t want to go help the neighbor, make someone a meal, serve at church? We have limited time, we have children, we have houses to clean, meals to make of our own, jobs that need to be done for the livelihood of our families. To  live as Christ is to live with a servants heart and to live in fellowship of one another.

The second part of this verse is, “to die is gain.” Death is an uncomfortable topic! But the reality of death is that IF you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ death equals eternity in Heaven! Eternity with our father!

Paul writes in Philippians from prison. He isn’t sure what the outcome of this event will be but he knows his options are this: If they allow him to live he can continue to live out his purpose in a Christ , serving the church and spreading Gods word. If they don’t allow him to live he gets to spend eternity in heaven. To Paul’s it’s a win win.

Would it be the same for you? If you were Paul would you be able to say “To Live is Christ and to die is gain?”


Reflection:
1. How can you live more like Christ?
2. Are you walking in Gods plan for you? If not, where do you begin?