What Do They Perceive About You?

In life we cross paths of many people, some of them we take notice of, while others we give very little attention to.

There was a woman of Shunem,  the bible refers to her as the Shunammite woman.

In the book of 2Kings 4:9 this Shunammite woman speaks to her husband saying " Behold now,

I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.  Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, and it shall be when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither."

This woman had taken notice of the man Elisha, she had seen him passing through her town often.

There must have been something about the man Elisha that made her perceive him as a man of God.

What had she experienced through her senses that gave her this perception of him?

When you are going on in your day, what might people perceive concerning you?

Our perception of someone or something is formed by our senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling.

If you are a child of God, what might others take notice of concerning you that would give them the perception that you are a child of God?

Can they see the light of life, spoken of in John 8:12 shining forth through you? "...I am the light of the world, he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."

Do they hear the wonderful words of God being spoken out of your mouth  that draws them in to a desire to know more and experience the God of whom you speak?

Romans 10:17 "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God."

Do you serve them the delightful tasting nourishment of God's word, so they may taste and see that the Lord is good,  as writen in Psalm 34:8?

Are they able to experience the wonderful aroma of his presence that you wear, as you put on Christ? the aroma  in 2Corinthians 2:15 "For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved, and in them that perish."

Have you given them  the opportunity to feel the love of Christ, at work in and through you, the love which is commanded, we share with all man kind?  as written in John15:12 "This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you."

There is one other sense which helps us in our perception, and that sense is the sense of discernment.

The Holy Spirit at work in us is a discerner, it is something you just know, because the Holy Spirit has revealed it as truth, as He (the Holy Spirit) leads us in all truth (John 16:13)

1Corinthians 2:12 " Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit whom is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."

Again I ask, What do they perceive about you?