The natural act of simply breathing becomes an oddly unnatural feeling when we are instructed to do so, we suddenly become aware of an action we perform all day, everyday, without thought or regard, simply as a matter of living.
It should be the same for us when we do what is good and right especially if doing so is supposed to be the result of a transforming faith.
The extension of grace, kindness, mercy, and all of the traits that Jesus embodied, should be practiced by Christians so routinely that they become an unnoticed natural routine, part of everyday living, as natural as breathing.
As people we rarely notice or regard things when they are going as they should. It is only when things go wrong that we stop to consider the mechanics of what we once took for granted.
It seems in part as a subculture, the church as a body is experiencing a spiritual asthma.
That we notice when we have done good, means that somewhere at some point in our thought process doing otherwise was to some degree considered an option.
Perhaps then it is worthy to consider how rarely we might be routinely practicing these things since they are clearly not coming easily and naturally to us, and begin to consider how we might correct our manner of everyday living.
Thinking that our right actions should be, for some reason worthy of recognition by ourselves or others should be to us as absurd as asking to be congratulated for inhaling and exhaling.
The life that it gives is the reward.
If we are born again, or new creations in Christ, then let embodying his character be as air to us...
...and doing otherwise a spiritual flatulence.
Think about it.
Solo Cristo Salva
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