Oh my. Are you as tired as I am this morning? Two full days have me acting like a sloth. I don’t want to move, think, or think about moving. However, there are still dishes to wash and some last bits of Christmas still remain to clean up.

But what these past few days have been. Friends, family, loved ones all gathering to share their love with one another. To remember the birth of Jesus and to know how much God loved us.

Last night before the grandbabies left, we were occupying my grandson Percy. When he is told it’s time to go, he is usually ready. He wants to leave right then and doesn’t care for anything to stop him.

However, his mom wasn’t quite ready to leave, so I showed him all of my nativities (I got a new one this year by the way). I ended with a small one with lights flickering through the figures. Then my daughter took over to keep him occupied. As he pulled the three characters off their pedestal, he would say, “Baby Jesus. Mommy Jesus. Daddy Jesus.”

I loved hearing him talk about Jesus and maybe he’s got it a little turned around, but then I thought of how that’s the way it’s supposed to be. People are to look at us and see Jesus. We are to resemble Jesus so much so that others would only see Jesus. So that people would say, “Donna Jesus. Baba Jesus.”

Take a look at some of these passages that lead me to this conclusion.

“But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.” (1 John 2:5-6 – NIV) That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? Well there’s more!

“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” (Romans 6:4 – NIV)

“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20 – NIV)

“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothes yourselves with Christ.” (Galatians 3:26-27 – NIV)

“Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” (Ephesians 5:1-2 – NIV)

As I go through my day-to-day life, my prayer, my goal, my objective is to be like Christ. Oh there are times I show up, but when I can look to the Holy Spirit to help me through my day, then I can be clothed with the fruit He produces in me (Galatians 5:22-23).

That’s when others will look at me and know that I am different from the world. And they just might be confused by what to call me.

What do people call you?

Grace and peace be yours in abundance,

Donna