Daily devotion – sailing or sinking
At Sunday afternoons baptism service, each person going into the waters of baptism was giving a powerful witness to the world of their new faith in Christ.
Paul wrote, “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” – Romans 12:15
As you read the life of Christ in the Gospels, we see Him so often eating with publicans and sinners. Nearly everyone Jesus associated with was an outcast. But His relationship with them was not purely social; it was redemptive.
This week, let God guide you so as not to get our worlds mixed up. In other words, God meant that we are not to mingle with the world and be polluted by the world, but we are to witness to the world. How are we to do this like Christ?
We are to “weep with those who weep,” suffer with those who suffer, and identify ourselves with the poor, the sick, and the needy in body, mind and spirit. How else can we reach them for Christ?
We are to love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. We achieve this distinction only by a close walk with Christ. Like Him, we are to be in the world, but not of the world.
It is good for a ship to be in the sea, but bad when the sea gets into the ship.