I have to admit that the whole WWJD (What Would Jesus Do) thing that came along after my time and often seemed to nothing more than a way to guilt people into submission, but it has been the question on my mind this week.... 

I guess I'm wondering what would Jesus do if he lived today?  What does being a modern-day Christian really look like? 

For so many people that means looking at music or clothes, but I'm wondering if that all isn't really subjective any way?   Would Jesus go to a rock concert wearing 7 jeans, or would he go hang out at the local coffee shop with his laptop?  I'm not talking about the consideration of sin either, please.  I think that there is a possibility for decency and morality in our society.

I don't really know how a man who lived 2000 years ago would relate to our present times, but I do know that Jesus hung with his friends over meals, that he went to gatherings with people who were known sinners including your local crooked IRS guy.  He even commended the woman who sat and talked with him despite her homemaking/hostess duties that were ignored.  It really sounds like Jesus had an active social life and not like he didn't live within the culture of the time.  He also didn't seem to see people the way that we so often see them.  He saw people who were lost and needed saving.  He didn't seem to look at what we are, but at what we could be.

I think the reason for my questioning is because I don't want to rationalize life today.  I want to live in the time in which I have been placed.  I think that we are each born into the season in which we belong, and it's up to us to find our place in it.  I just see so many people who don't enjoy their lives, and I often feel that need to play a martyr or get too wrapped up in being busy, and I'm wondering how right that really is.   I don't want to be so busy that I don't have a life to enjoy.  Jesus had a job and a ministry, but he still found time to meet people, have friends and experience life on earth....