Basketball.  One the scale of important things in life it goes: God, basketball, oxygen, food, sleep, family, friends, bathroom, and so on.  What I am trying to say is that I love me some basketball.  Today, as every other day, I was out playing basketball with some of my boys and I saw 4 different people I knew.  This tends to happen to me all the time.  I feel like I have a magnet that draws everyone I know out of crowds to see me when I am nasty sweaty or doing something really dumb.  Whether it is at Starbucks, Wal-Mart, or the movie theater, I continually see students or friends or just people that know me from church.

Now before you think, “Why is TC making himself sound so popular? Is he that desperate?” haha (only a little jk)  I have a point to all of this.  Every where you go in life people notice you.  Whether it is at the mall, at the game, at lunch, on facebook, you are being watched.  Whether you know it or not you have hundreds, maybe thousands, of people that see what you do with your life.  Maybe it’s your best friend, your mom, your dad, your lab partner, that smelly kid that sits across the room from you in English, that cute girl that sits across from you in English (maybe that kid is good smelly? perfume anyone).  The point is that everything you do is noticed.

So what are people seeing?  Do they see your pride, your selfishness, your lack of hygiene (are you the smelly kid in English?), your joy, your kindness, your smile, or are they seeing…. Jesus?

2 Corinthians 5:20 says, “We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you.”

We are representatives of Jesus.  Jesus, the Savior of humanity, the Creator of the world.  You are supposed to show the world what He is all about.  Are you?  When you walk into a room, what presence do you have?  Do they feel the presence of Christ’s love?  Living for Christ is loving the unlovable (back to the smelly kid), serving those we do not want to serve, help those we do not want to help.  Why though?  Because if we only love the people that are easy to love, are we any different than everyone else? Are we anything like Christ?

When I am seen in public, I always asked myself who they saw.  Did they see TC or Jesus?  Maybe you need to ask yourself that question.  Maybe you need to show them the right person.