?Two men were walking through a downtown area. One of the men pointed to a passing stranger who was walking down the street and said, “That man is a soldier.”
“How do you know,” asked the friend, “seeing as he is in civilian clothes?”
The first man replied, “I can always tell a soldier by the way he walks.” Should people be able to tell we are Christians by our walk-the way we conduct our lives?
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.” (Albert Einstein)
There is a story told about a blind man who was frequently seen sitting on a corner with a lighted candle in his hand. Finally, someone asked him why he had the candle there, since he was blind and could not see. Daylight and dark were the same to him. The blind man said, “I have it so people won’t stumble over me.”
A little girl was on the way home from church when she turned to her mother and said, “Mommy, the preacher’s sermon this morning confused me.”
The mother said, “Oh! Why is that?”
The girl replied, “Well, he said that God is bigger than we are. Is that true?”
“Yes, that’s true,” the mother replied.
“He also said that God lives within us. Is that true, too?”
Again the mother replied, “Yes.”
“Well,” said the girl. “If God is bigger than us and He lives in us, wouldn’t He show through?”
(from Mikey’s Funnies)