What is your defining quality? Is it your fashion style, or your sense of humor, or your excellence in what you do? If you say that you are a Christian, your defining quality should be love – a love that overlooks faults but does not tolerate sin. Your loving actions can draw people to Christ.  Remember, the Christian life is a life completely lived out through Jesus, in Jesus, and for Jesus!

Jesus Christ, by His death and resurrection, fulfilled all of God’s laws so we would be set free from the power of sin and death. He defeated all the powers of this world. This means that we don’t have to do anything else after we have invited Him to be our Lord and Savior. We don’t have to pray to angels or spirits; we don’t have to follow superstitious customs as a back-up to our prayers; we don’t have to walk barefoot behind any carved image or touch the carved image to be blessed. Get to know Jesus and His will through the Bible, so you won’t be deceived by false teachings.

What common cultural practices do you do? Do you say “good luck” to a friend about to face something difficult? Do you have “fortune plants” or golden frog figurines in the house so that you will have a prosperous life? Do you choose “good” dates to get married? If we say that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, we don’t need to add anything to His sacrifice on the cross for our sins. We do not need to live in fear and submit to superstitious practices because Jesus is the Lord of creation and redemption.