living as spies

The latest Cold War saga over the Russian spies got me to thinking today. As I read the article about the lady who met & married a man by another name, had a child with him and was living life....I was struck by how this relates to our lives in Christ.
I mean...are we all not really spies for something or someone in our daily lives? even if that someone is ourself. so often we hide behind walls, or smiles or bitterness who we really are. life writes on us...it is God's school for us to shape and mold us. we gather information, go about our daily walk, seeing both known and new faces each day. we contain a wealth of knowledge about the writings of our life....question is what do we do with the knowledge we have gained? do we harbor it inside? behind walls built by pain. do we think our writings can't help someone else? maybe they think they are alone in their pain. no. no one is alone in the pain-no matter the source of it. pain is pain and it resonates in our hearts and minds. sits there, eats away at us. if we let it. our minds are powerful things and we have been given the greatest and some may say the worst gift...but it's a choice. just like the spies who were supposedly choosing to give their gained knowledge to another country, we must choose what to do with our information. who and how to share our information.
i will say that i believe the spies did it right....they simply lived among this world. something like lifestyle evangelism. so as Christ repeats so many times...we are to share what the life lessons we have-the good the bad the ugly, all of it because He never leaves us.


Romans 8: 16-17 --The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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1 Thessalonians 2:8 --We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.


in closing, may we be considered a great spy! A spy for the Lord Jesus Christ and may we take in more knowledge than our minds can conceive in order to glorify God in all things of our life. sharing with those around us how Christ can infiltrate our lives allowing us to infiltrate those around us for Him!