A Christian should just live life normally, like everyone else, but with Christ in mind. How do we live with Christ in our mind? Two things - give glory to God and give thanks to Him.
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV)
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV)
Before we do anything, we ask, does it glorify God? If we always ask ourselves this question each time before we do anything, it will help to put a lot of things into its proper perspective.
And for everything that happened to us, we give thanks to God. Matthew Henry (1662-1714), the great Bible scholar who wrote a six-volume commentary on the Bible, was once robbed of his wallet. Knowing that it was his duty to give thanks for everything, he found, not one, but four reasons to give thanks to God for being robbed. He recorded in his diary the following:
"Let me be thankful, first, because he never robbed me before; second, because although he took my purse, he did not take my life; third, because although he took all I possessed, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed."
When we live our lives in this manner, we will be gradually transformed to be like Christ.
We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18 CSB)
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