What am I, a Christian, Doing for Christ?

By Ralph Hathaway

11/30/2025 • View profile

This question is a perfect reminder at any time in our life to make an assessment of what our faith is doing for our own soul. We go to Church, pray with our family, observe the needs for humanity, and ask ourselves what we are doing for Christ. The adherence of finding which direction our belief is; what have we learned or supported that has any impact in our membership of Christian attitudes. It isn’t the search of our individual sense of doing as much as our finding Christ in our hearts and becoming one with him.

This first Sunday of Advent should become a premise to what the deeper meaning of Christmas will be if our sense of belonging with Christ has come first in our spiritual mind of the Incarnation. To get a sense of what is to come, we read; In the days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it; many peoples shall come and say, “Come let us climb the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob.” (Is 2: 2 - 3a).

The beginning of the Lord’s entry into humanity is the promise of God to bring forgiveness to his children. As with all of Sacred Scripture the bible is dedicated to Jesus Christ and from the Prophet Isaiah we shall see how essential these readings are when we ask ourselves “what am I doing for Christ” will place an understanding to what we believe and adhere within the Name of Jesus.

From Isaiah we find a picturesque attitude of just what Christ would be in order to become the only entity that would save Israel from their sluggishness by rejecting the grace that God chose them and tolerated their rejection of him. Yet, as we contemplate the four weeks of preparation leading to the Nativity, which is the Incarnation of Christ, it should open to our minds just how we shall answer the question of “what I am doing for my Lord.”

Advent is not the same as Lent where each one needs to absorb their individual requirement to find what they must do to prepare for their ongoing mercy of forgiveness. It is a period of learning how much hope is found towards the promise of God to send us a Savior that is the only way to heaven. “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” (Jn 14: 6).

Ralph B. Hathaway