Throughout time the “catch phrase” or “slogan” has been used to promote or sell a company’s product.  From long ago there was “Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz, oh what a relief it is” with the Alka Seltzer company or the best known of the Kellogg’s brand, Frosted Flakes, and Tony the Tiger saying; “They’re g-r-reat!”  And what about “Got Milk” from the California Milk Processing Board found on billboards across the country and Apple Computers, “Think Different” which attracted criticism from grammar police, so much so that Apple corrected the phrase through Siri. Yep, ask Siri what she thinks and she replies; “I think differently”.

Slogans and catch phrases are everywhere.  Some accomplish exactly what’s intended as that “jingle” sticks with you or you can hear that phrase and it automatically brings to your mind the product it represents.

The line between the life of the world and the life with Christ, will become a bit blurred unfortunately.  For we as Christians have our expressions really meant sincerely but over time have become not much more than catch phrases.  Another line blurred.

We respond to someone’s hurts by saying; “I’ll pray for you.”  Now many times we will but often times we say it, give a little smile, and think nothing else of it until we see them next week at church.  What about; “I don’t feel led”?  That one is used often times to get out of something that God may be trying to do in and through us because it’s a bit inconvenient or more difficult than another. We choose the easy route and opt out of the difficult, God chosen task with the spiritual sounding, “I don’t feel led”.  A catch phrase.

I heard it best expressed by an old country preacher when he said; “You are walking so loud, I can’t hear what you’re saying.”   Without the living testimony, our words are just that.  Words.  Catch Phrases.  Galatians 5:25; “If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.”

As Christians, followers of Christ, we are reminded by Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus to live according to His leadership. Ephesians 4:1; “I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,…”

Go out today and live for Christ. Make a difference!