Are you setting the standard for those who see you?

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Are you setting the standard for those who see you?

John 13:12-17 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, ”Do you know what I have done to you? “You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well for so I am. “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. “For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. “Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Whether you know it or not you are setting a standard to all that see you. When you use the world’s standard to live by, the example you show is anything goes. If the world’s standard is what you live by, you show all that is around you in the world they must be okay. Their problems are about the same as yours. Their kids have the same problems yours do, and if they have worse problems than you, you think you are doing a little better than them. Things in your life are not quite as bad as theirs. If your neighbor’s spouse is running around town, and yours is not you think you are better off. If your loved ones are healthy and others around you have someone sick, you have a secure feeling that you must be doing right and they must be doing wrong. At least that is what the world’s standards portrays. Until your loved one becomes sick and then you think it must happen to everyone, as you franticly search for a healing. By using what goes on in this world to set your standard for life, you are the blind being led by the blind.

When you come to God through His Son Jesus. You are setting a new standard in the world. One they are not use to seeing. One that has others taking a second look. When you use God’s word as the standard in your life and not others lifestyle, you always have your goal in perspective. You can never compare your life to others unless they follow Christ, and His teachings. As you set the standard that others see in you be sure it is one worthy of a standard. If you strive to be like Jesus, you have a standard that others can follow.

Do not let others see a standard in you that is not Christ like, if you are a Christian. If you say you’re a Christian set the standard. Be as Christ like as you can. Let the world see in you, your wife, and your children, what Christians do. This is how to behave. This is what to expect from Christianity. Jesus left us an example as He walked this earth, it is all documented in the Bible. Study to show yourself approved, rightly divide the word. Let the world see a standard in you that they cannot deny, unless they are not Christians.

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