Friday; October 13
One thing we must accept to be Christians is that we have been called to a different and separate lifestyle. While most of us know this, how many of us really believe that the lives we have been called to live are better than what is available to the world? Sometimes I get the impression that Christians are kind of like the child who is inside the house sitting at the window looking out to the children playing outside lamenting the safety and security we have inside and wishing we could be like everyone else. We are convicted to our values, but we feel bad that we can’t get to do what everyone else gets to do. What would happen if we started looking at godliness as a blessed life? How would our attitudes change if we accepted that what we have with God and in Christ is superior to what the rest of the world has? When David reflected on his life with God he observed, “For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of