Let the light of Christ shine through you

Most people do not like to wait. I see that in the reviews that we ask our customers to give us after they have used our services.  It’s got to be the #1 complaint, hands down.  So we’ve come up with several different ways to speed up our processes, and some people are STILL not happy!  Other businesses have recognized this trait in their customers as well and as a result we can now buy food, medicine, and even do our banking from our cars. Even then we get impatient if the lines don’t move fast enough for us.

If this waiting seems hard, picture the poor man who had been sick for thirty-eight years and had no one to help him get into the pool of Bethesda for healing. Christ recognized his situation and healed him, not by the water, but by His words. (John 5:1-16)

How many people are there around us every day who are waiting for someone to reach out to them for healing? We don’t expect that we can ask a crippled person to get up and walk, but we can heal their distress a little bit through showing interest by listening to another, through a smile, a sign of recognition, or any act of kindness.

Indifference to those around us and their problems can be as damaging as a blatant, mean act. Throughout His public life Christ demonstrated that He cared about those around Him.

At the end of each day, it would be nice to look back and say "Yes, I really demonstrated that I cared for those I encountered today".  It would be better if we could add, “And I did it to let the light of Christ shine through me”.