The Challenge To Live Everyday Like Christmas

To live everyday like it was Christmas. Each day we live there are days of hapiness and days a trials and sadness. Its how we choose to react to life circumstances. Life happens everyday and we need to be ready for for a life that is not ours. To live everyday like Christmas is living not of ourselves. Take up the cross and follow Jesus. Luke 9:23. Live to follow Jesus daily.

Be the spark. If it only takes a spark to get a Fire going than be the difference we are supposed to be. If christmas time is a time of sharing joy and love to everyone we meet than, may we receive the greatest gift of all--LOVE! And give it everyday as we are commanded according to Gods word.

We don't live for Christmas. We live to share Christs love daily! May we receive it and give it.

Now, I believe we are challenging ourselves to live and be like Christ without the challenge. We always share and talk about what we should do and how we should love and what we can do,but it goes back to the saying of our actions need to be our words. I feel the greatest issue today is hypocrisy. I see myself always trying to figure out what it means to be a Christian instead of just living it out like I am told. We live in a society today full of good intentions of I really am going to go have coffee with that individual or I really am going to give some money to this organization or next week I will put something in the offering plate or even I should really go talk to that individual over there. If we all acted upon our intentions the world little by little would be listening to the one who created it-- God.

We are born into this world not for ourselves. We are called to love. It can be challenge at times but a time of growth and understanding of who we are in Christ. May we instead of just caring for our own needs and selfish desires and how we always want to be the right one or prove that person wrong, may we humble ourselves to live like Christ. May we dust up the house of our lives and start the fire to a life of living with a difference. May we be bold with genuinity and authenticity and share the love and light of Christ that is living in us and through us.

The great intentions and talk about actions is great but, what would life be like if we took the challenge to go a step further and act out the love of our savior. Even right now I am just talking about acting upon it and right now it is just talk until I do something.

My challenge to myself is to act out the love of Christ by sharing how God has worked through my life each day. We have all the conversations with friends and family and I want to open up the door and share what is really happening. Instead of just talking about weather and Plans and relationships I believe there needs to me more talk about god and our individual relationships with Him.

I also want to act on love by telling others I am thinking of them and ultimately God loves them. Whether that is a phone call or a letter people need to know that we are thinking and praying about them genuinely. God can can work through the smallest circumstances.

The other challenge is we should be living the light of Christ every step we take and every breath we make. If God is our everything than we need to live the life of showing his love. I want to strive to take up these challenges. If God is truly my everything than I want to live only for him and put all other things aside.

Through this challenge I can only do it with Gods help. All things are possible through him. Also,I pray that I will only do this for his kingdom and nothing of myself.

I pray that we as a community in the body of Christ will take on this daily challenge and live the life of christ everywhere we go and in everything we do. May we follow the work of the holy spirit in us and work as a community together all for the kingdom of God.