With the death of Whitney Houston this past weekend, worldwide attention was focused on her troubled life and untimely death. The vast majority of us will never be known to the world outside of our small circle and, yet, we all still have an influence. How will the people I interact with from day to day remember me? The people who see me at work, at leisure or at a sporting event? What about my closer friends? What about my family who most likely knows me better than anyone else?
Hopefully we are doing our best to leave favorable impressions on everyone we meet. If every professing Christian left a Christ-like impression on the world imagine the kind of world we would live in. We would have a world with fewer broken families, fewer relationship scandals and fewer people enslaved to the darkness of the world. Rather than discord, a spirit of harmony would grow between all people. Evangelism would be much easier because people would be seeking us out to discover the joy we have in Christ.
Remember that everyday we influence others. We cannot control that fact, but we can control what type of influence we will be. Let us commit to do what is right and change the world for good.
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