May 4

The Lord has high expectations for His redeemed ones. He does not expect that they shall live their lives “as usual.” If there were a literal yardstick by which to measure lives ‘before’ and ‘after’ acceptance of Christ as Savior and Lord, that measuring device should register an enormous difference in professors of Christ!

They do not simply become better at what they have been; they become reflections of Jesus’ light and life and love to all mankind. It becomes the driving force of their lives to reveal to others the matchless Truth, the unspeakable Gift that they have themselves received.

It becomes their goal to follow the scriptural admonition in Galatians 5:13, 14 which says, “Brothers, you have been called to liberty, but your liberty is not given that you may use it to indulge your flesh—it is given that you might love and serve one another! For the law is fulfilled in loving your neighbor as yourself.”

The Lord expects that once His love and salvation have been recognized and received, the believer will devote himself to sharing that ‘good news’ with others. The believer who has been delivered from the cruel grip of sin and from its resultant punishment now devotes himself to sharing the Christ who saved him with everyone whose life touches his.