“Keep your wits about you,” I said to Dianne.

Paul wrote, “Walk by the Spirit” (Gal. 5:16 a). “Trust Christ to live through you,” I’ve heard. “In Christ alone,” we sing.

All four concepts mean the same thing.

Except that the last three don’t convey the role you play.

As a Christian, what is your contribution to the table of life?

Keep your wits about you.

Bring all that you are—skills, talents, experience, wisdom, training, personality—to the Holy Spirit to work in you, through you, and with you to realize the goal. You are more than a conduit—a hollow tube—that Jesus pours through.

You are the redeemed, transformed, friend of God. Friendship is reciprocal. You have essence, importance, viability, sentience, and life abundant.

Trust Christ and Him alone. Yes! But engage.  

Bring everything—all of you—every day, in every way to the game of life.