This week's devotion is entitled:

Acceptance


Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ's, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ's, even so we are Christ's.
~2 Corinthians 10:7

This week, I thought I would talk about acceptance, the topic we covered in my school's Christian club last Friday at our last meeting of the year. It is important for everyone, but especially Christians, to be accepting of others. The lost who are looking for acceptance and need to find it in Christ will look for it in us, and we need to be ready and willing to show it. We need to be able to accept a person for who they are, and show them Christ's love no matter what their character or personality or physical appearance is.

The dictionary.com definition of acceptance is "Favorable reception; approval." Think long and hard about the defintion of acceptance, and what the Bible says about it, and think about whether or not this is how you treat the people around you.

Another part of accepting others as Christians is not to boast or brag.

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
~2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Just remember that even though you have the greatest gift that could ever be given, eternal salvation, you would have nothing without Christ. Don't brag about yourself or your achievements, because that definitely doesn't shine Christ's light to others.

In everything you do and in the way you treat others, try to always show Christ's love for them.