Many Christians who regularly attend Church on a weekly basis will look down on Christians who don’t attend Church at all or who only are C & E (Christmas and Easter) Church attending Christians, but many of them aren’t much better. They confine their Christianity to the hour or two when they are in Church or to their daily prayers and then act anything but Christian in their daily lives.

Christianity and God aren’t confined to the Sanctuary or Church grounds or even the confines of our homes. Christ and God should be everywhere because they are to be found everywhere. Christ is the stranger we look down on and see as less than us and Christ is the hungry people in our communities or at least we should look at that way (When He was hungry and homeless they turned Him away. There was no room at the inn). We portray or should in our lives our Christianity. Paul said to be in constant prayer and it is said that everything we do should be a prayer.  James said Faith without work is dead Faith and it is.  Monks stay within the confines of a Monastery to get closer to God, but for what Benefit? What good is it to God if we or they are in constant, daily or even weekly prayer, but are not producing Good Fruit? It benefits God nothing if we are a good people only on Sundays or in our personal life if others bear no witness to it. We are known through our Fruits and a vine that doesn’t produce Fruit will be cast aside.

Be Christian in all your affairs so that in you Christ is revealed and you Bear Good Fruit of Good Deeds so that others see the Miracle of Christ in you. Paul said in Titus that to do good things because it benefits everyone. Doing Good has its own built in Benefit to the person who does Good. I pose these Questions to the reader:  Why does it feel good when we do something nice or rather than be mean we smile? Why when we do something bad do we feel bad or are filled with guilt? I think it is rather self evident why God might make us feel good when we do good things, but feel miserable when we do wrong.

We are Christ’s representatives on Earth, so we should try to do His Work.

Merry Christmas. Praise be to God. The Peace of the Lord Christ Jesus be with you, Jim+