Ought to be Different

You ought to be different!  You should not act, talk, or behave the same as you did before or would without.   If Christ is in you, you ought to be different.  Your motives ought to change.  Your actions ought to change.  Your priorities ought to change.  Your focus ought to change.  However, a lot of folks have a '9/11 kind of faith'.  After 9/11 church attendance soared, mindsets became eternal, focus was more heavenly.  Then the dust settled (literally) and everybody went back to their carnal selves.  Those same 'Christians'  will turn to Him when disease comes, when disaster comes, when difficulty arises, and when it settles, go back to what they are doing.  That is not the Christian life though.  You ought to be different.  Paul put it this way.  - Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.- Philippians 1.27 (www.lifejournal.cc)  Be different!...coming and going...hurting or celebrating...be different!  Stand wiht the Lord through thick and thin....and do it today!