Amplify or Alter?: The choice is clear

Throughout scripture the message is known and knowable.
"For the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life. And this life is in His Son…."
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father but by Me."

And Jesus' example and commands are clear.
"He has my Words and keeps them, He it is who loves me."
"Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength".

Our job is to reflect His truth, through our words and obedience to His commands!
Our lives amplify His grace. His grace is illustrated by  our obedience. He has set the lines of the tapestry, and we have been given the grace of weaving in our daily lives to bring color and depth to His work!

When we commune with Him in His Word and prayer, we are learning the tapestry.
When we serve the lost, love our brothers and sisters, and make disciples we are amplifying His work.

The only way we can magnify the work of Christ, is to know it so clearly that we can sift life's decisions through the paradigm of the work of Christ, His kingdom. When we don't have a fixed gaze on Him and His kingdom, we start to alter His work.

In the church, we too often alter the kingdom work, try to weave a different tapestry. Truth and obedience are fading into the background of an altered grace. A grace based separate from communion with Christ. Separate from His purposes.

Following Christ is about amplifying His grace, His truth. Not altering it...

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