Tonight, Dave Ramsey spoke at Kairos and one thing he said stood out to me. Just as a brand name of a product is known for a certain quality of that product, so we are known for something in our lives. It’s not what we say that we are known for, but what we do. So what are you known for?

I think I know. I want to be known as a man after God’s own heart. I want to be known as someone absolutely drenched in God and drowning in the overflow of His love and grace. I want to be someone who has no glory of his own but reflects the glory of Christ just as the moon has no light of its own but reflects the light of the sun. I want my goal to be that I look a little more like Jesus today than I did yesterday, this month than I did last month, and this year than last year.

I want to be known as someone who lived what I said I believed. Someone whose heart beat with the heartbeat of God, full of compassion and tenderness. Someone broken-hearted over the things that break God’s heart. Someone who was not afraid to love the least of these, even when they least deserved it. Someone who gave himself away for the Kingdom every single day.

I don’t want this to become another legalistic checklist where I fail if I don’t get at least 4 out of 5 of these checked off daily. I want it to be a growing passion in me and a desire that never wavers or wanes. I want this for my brothers and sisters in Christ, that we together reflect as the Church the full beauty and glory of Christ and love each other and the world in such a radical way that it demands their attention.

When we are known as a people not who judge or condemn or make new rules, but as a people who love and forgive and show grace, then we will be known as a people whom God used to dramatically change the world. We will be the change in the world that we want t see. May Christ in you be your only hope and stay and may His love continue to captivate and transform your heart into one like His.

Amen and amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!