A quote you’ll need today.

I read a quote days ago and it keeps reappearing in my thoughts - the best kind of quote then. One that lingers and has the potential to become a part of you and change you.

It was from a beloved author in our home - C.S. Lewis - on the reality that every christian should indeed be a “little Christ” - a small replica of the One we follow after.

It seems like a simple notion and a rather childlike way to put it, but I’ve been left asking myself - am I walking in the identity of a little-Christ?

Am I daily living in the reality of being an image bearer of my Maker, that others, when examining the daily details of my life, would see the character of Christ?

Yesterday morning this was the discussion ‘round the school room table - lesson books put aside and Bible’s open.

There had been particularly rough tones and sharp words thrown about that morning and we all needed a moment to restore what had been damaged.

I shared my heart with our boys and we spent time in prayer together.

Not two hours later I was faced with my own set of temptations - isn’t that just exactly how it always goes?

A no show to an appointment that had required me to throw out the plan for the day and load up the family. Chaos, essentially, was what would be required to make this appointment work.

But someone decided to change their schedule and didn’t feel the need to let me know.

I boiled a bit inside as I hauled our many belongings - snack bags, diaper bags, book bags, all the bags we could possibly attempt to carry - and packed them back inside the minivan.

As I slipped into the front seat it came to me as a rather unwelcome thought if I am quite honest…

“Little Christ’s.” Little image bearers who reveal the nature and character of our God in the mundane little moments.

Was I walking in it? Or was I simply leaving it to words on a page that can be quoted to others and applauded without being embraced?

How often the disconnect between the words we read and the lives we live. The Word can be so highly esteemed in our homes yet make little imprint upon the daily steps we take.

May it be said of us all - that we walk as smaller versions of the One in whom our steps ought to daily follow.

I’ll leave you here with the entirety of the quote so you to can be stirred by it’s truth:

“Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has — by what I call "good infection." Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.”

C.S. Lewis