In The Living.

To not look at the faults. To not see the wrong or the struggles. To not convict or point out the sin.

To not have all the right answers. To not get your life all put together and perfect. To not make sure you have a plan in place with the steps memorized, calculated and thought-out, and all rehearsed.

But just to come, as you are. Available. Willing.

And to love. To tell the good news. To love another. As you are. As they are. To love and to tell. Life!

Because leading another to Christ is none about you, and all about Him. About His goodness and His grace and His mercy. And His love. His Life!

So you just live it. Just be. Just love. Just abide. Just overflow. As you are. Who you are. Exactly who God created you to be. As only you can! You live it. Your life hid with Christ. This life, now, this freedom, this joy and peace and salvation of God. You live it, as God has ordained for you to live it. Where you are. Right now.

For that's what life is about. That's everything that life is. Life in Christ, abundant life, freedom. With Christ by your side, all the way. That's it!

And in the living there is peace. There is clarity and direction, in the living. And in the living there is encouragement, from Christ Himself. Because Christ is the Guide and the Companion and the Source, and the Life. Through all of life. Jesus Christ is, and becomes. Everything to you.

And it happens. Your salvation, Christ Jesus Himself, becomes your joy. Because in everything, He is everything to you. And that is when others will see Christ, that is when others will be drawn to and led to Christ, the One Who is Life. In the living, your living.

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"Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." - Colossians 3:2-3

"The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." - Psalm 118:14