Devotionals

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1 Kings 16:2: "I lifted you up from the dust and made you leader of my people Israel, but you walked in the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to provoke me to anger by their sins. -NIV

I know it is a cliché and even worse is the newer versions like "Dog is my Copilot", although I am growing kind of fond of the one that says “If God is your Co-pilot then Promote him to Pilot”

This got me to thinking about what we say to others when we stand up so proudly and declare “I am A Christian” with our bumper stickers and T-shirts, our mugs and our Music. I was given a story the other day about a woman who was arrested because she started swearing at the driver in front of her. The policeman assumed the car was stolen because all the bumper stickers declared the driver was a Christian so he believed a swearing driver must have carjacked it from a Christian. The story of course is apocryphal but still it drives home a point. Why do we let the enemy hijack our lives? We are supposed to be “leaders” in our community showing others the way to Christ. Instead to often we drive others away from him when they see the way we live. We want to tell others we are Christians and we want others to come to us and say, as the song says, “Take me to your Leader” but will they really do that based upon watching your life. When Jesus is your Co-pilot he is still only there for emergencies, the back-up, do we really want to relegate him to standby or do we want him actually in the pilots seat taking us to a higher altitude of living.

From now on live as if Jesus is your pilot. Let him do the flying you act as the Host or Hostess and help out the others flying with you then maybe they will say to you. “What a great flight I would like to meet the Pilot.”

By Gethsemene Rose
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