Put God on Display...

During the sermon at our wedding, the pastor admonished us to put God on display in our home. Those words have echoed in my heart many days in the short 18 years we  have enjoyed married life.

How do we put God on display in our homes? I think it can only really happen consistently and truly when He is our everything. There is no possible way that He can be displayed if we are yelling at our loved ones, living selfishly and not seeking true values. It just isn't possible. Oh, it may appear so for a good, long while (I have been shocked by the brokenness coming from some of the godliest-appearing homes), but eventually the facade will have to come down and we will be left standing naked and ashamed.

"Put God on display in your home", he said. What beautiful words. And I find my heart responding to them with a hearty and deep-seated YES.

I will die to "me" so that in me He can dwell and bring glory to the Father. I have committed my whole life to this, because this is the only thing that really matters: that He should be seen in me fully and wholly.

Loving God with our all will be the sure way to put Him on display, because thoughts and heart contents become words and actions. If we love Him with our whole heart, soul, strength and mind, He will certainly be on display in our lives and in our homes. We won't have to struggle and strain to do it. It will happen.

I aim to put God on display in my home. I want the Fruit of the Spirit to come pouring out of my life, a sign of the 'life more abundantly' that Jesus came to give me.

For me, this means I have to live purposefully. This means that I need to say no to many extra activities calling my name outside my doors. Because I am not able to do everything. I have to pick and choose what will help me stay home and live a life that gives me time to put God on display in my home. (more on this subject in another post, as God directs...)

Let's go forth and put God on display in our lives and in our homes. Then churches will be stable products of such homes...and lives will be transformed...and communities will be drawn to the light of Life, Jesus Christ.

Love and blessings,
Marcia

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