In Your name we play
Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men
It is Springtime, so that means it is baseball time at our house. We changed our boys over to a new league called Stewards of the Game this year. We had heard nothing but good things about it and that they had a Christian theme. We had no idea of their bold statement of faith until we attended the mandatory parent night before meeting the coaches. The leader of the organization spoke repeatedly about his faith in Jesus Christ, and using the game of baseball to glorify Jesus Christ in how the boys handled themselves on the field. Devotions before practices, prayers before and after games, and conduct becoming a Christian at all times. We have been beyond impressed to say the least so far this season.
I also have this scripture on the side of my work truck and it is how I try to run my HVAC business. Everything I try to do to the best of my ability, and know that my CEO is above monitoring my every move at work each day under His name. How you conduct yourself in your every day activities is the largest reflection of who you truly are. Do you think anyone “judges” you because you are at church on Sunday? Do you think they “judge” you because they know you went to church on Sunday, and then acted like that on Monday? When you read this passage in it’s context, you realize Paul is talking about the family dynamic. Paul is talking about who knows us best; knows us at our best, and at our worst, and when our best is an act. Paul also tells of the promise and the warning in the next passage; 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.
Are there evidences of what you proclaim on Sunday? Are there proofs in your every day life of Jesus Christ? What did you do yesterday, that anyone who met you might think that you were a Christian? James 2:17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. Would it be too much to ask to proclaim your faith in some way today? It could even be on a baseball field. The Stewards always close their prayer with these words; “It is in Jesus Christ name we pray, it is in Jesus Christ name we play.”
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