What Do We Do Now?

​“My eyes have seen your salvation.” Luke 2:30

Words spoken by Simeon as Jesus was being presented in the temple 8 days after his birth.

Hope had been born and Simeon lived to see this “light for revelation to the Gentiles”.

Again, a thrill of hope to a weary world, to a weary soul, Simeon.

He waited and waited and waited.

He was now here….Immanuel…God with us.

In reading this passage, you read past the words to the heart of Simeon—a heart fill of joy and thankfulness—-a heart thrilled with hope.

My eyes saw salvation when I was 16 and every day I am reminded that I was once an enemy but am now a citizen of heaven.

As I reflect on his birth, I am reminded there is a lot of life between his birth and his death and his resurrection.
And now too, I must not move on from the birth of a Jesus, but now must live as He lived.

It’s not enough to celebrate his birth and his death/resurrection.

WE MUST ALSO CELEBRATE HIS LIFE HE LIVED BY LIVING OUR EVERY DAY LIKE HIS!

It’s called discipleship. It’s called following Jesus.

What now does it look like to live as Jesus lived and walk as Jesus walked? (Reflect on this and marinate on this question.)

You really want to give Jesus a gift? Walk as he did.

I think Paul sums it up well as how we should walk in Christ.

“I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead! I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:10-13‬ ‭NLT‬‬
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(Today at Church Inside Out we have Family Worship Sunday-an opportunity to bring the Word into our homes and an opportunity for moms/dads/husbands/wives/students/children to share the Word. Our prayer is it would become a habit on a regular basis. This time also gives a rest for our house church hosts-thank you for opening up your home her week!)