Let your light shine...

Who will you talk to today? Who will you talk to about Jesus today?
Think about all the people you are going to come into contact with today. Then, think about all the open doors in one day that God is going to give you to talk about Jesus to someone. I'm not saying that every conversation will turn into a chance to witness to someone, but I am saying that out of the 50 opportunities you will have today, how many will you use? In Mark chapter 16 The Great Commission is laid out before us...."Go out into all the world and preach the gospel..." is the command that is given to us. However, we get through a day, a week, even a month and how many times have we even spoke about the gospel, let alone preached it? And as I have said in other posts, you don't always have to "preach it" with words. How many times on any given day do you let your life preach the gospel? When I look around at my yesterday, my day before, my last week...I see time after time that God put me someplace and opened a door to talk to someone. Sometimes I saw the opportunity and acted on it, and sometimes I didn't even realize it until the moment was gone. I think the key is to get up each day and ask for the opportunities. It says in James that "we do not have, because we do not ask". Well why are we not asking....I personally believe that sometimes it's because He might actually give us what we are asking for. If we say "God give me the chance to witness to someone today and tell them all that you have done in my life"....well, He might just do that. However, not asking is kind of like saying to God that you don't want Him to provide the chances. And when we do that we are hiding our light. Matthew 5 says we need to be a light in this world....but we can't be if we are keeping that light under a basket.
If your child won the big game yesterday, or a scholarship to college, or you got a major award at work...you would talk about it. How much more do we have to boast about when it comes to what Jesus has done for us. Look for those chances when your at the store, in line with someone, or around your unsaved friends. Don't lay your head down tonight counting all the missed chances you had to tell someone about Jesus today. Instead, be telling the enemy how many seeds you planted that he needs to be worried about!