One of the things that is expected of us as Christians is to reach out to the world. Mark 16:15 sums it all up by saying "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone". And some of the best ways we can "preach" the good news is by the life we live. Allowing people to see God at work in your life, in your attitude, in the peace that you carry or in the love that you show can be more powerful than any words that ever come out of your mouth. But when we do speak, then The Good News that we are be preaching should be the good news of Jesus Christ. How He came and died to make a way for us to have a relationship with God and live an eternal life with Him. But one of the problems is we forget what the good news is the we are supposed to be preaching, so instead, we just preach AT the world. Now as I say that I want to be very clear in stating that I do believe God's Truth is important for the world to know. Everywhere Jesus went He boldly spoke the truth...but He also did it in love. However, there were times like in Matthew 21 where Jesus got angry with a righteous anger because of what He saw the people doing. And I believe there are things going on in this world today that if He appeared in the flesh right now we would see Him righteously angry about again. However, the place I have tried really hard to change myself in, is not letting things or people provoke me to anger. It is my place to care...yes...but it is God who will pass the judgement on the things that do not please Him.
So as we go out to reach the world we have to be very careful to not let the things that bother us (and rightly so) ruin our ability to witness. Love is what will win people to God and the truth is what will open their eyes and set them free. We can't beat the world over the head with the truth and expect them to see the love in that. It just won't work. But I also don't want to be standing in front of Jesus some day and get asked why I didn't try harder. The world is only going to get reached one way....by us. By the people who know and follow Jesus showing the world why we love and follow Him. If you are a Christ follower your life should look like it. For to many years mine did not and that was the main reason I didn't desire to go out and reach people. I was to ashamed of the fact that if they took a hard look at my own life, would it look like something that was rescued by Jesus? Probably not. But once I came to a place of complete surrender to Jesus and I experienced what it really mean to love Him, to be in relationship with Him and to be set free from the sin of this world by Him....that was when I realized that I can't go through the rest of my life without trying to get others to experience this amazing change.
God will bring people into your life that will need what you have received from Him if you only ask. He will also give you what it will take to witness to them and talk to them about His love. The Holy Spirit was sent here to be our guide our helper. But you have to be willing to submit to Him in order to be led by Him. Today ask God help you preach the good news to the world with your life. Ask Him to give you the words when they are necessary, but mostly ask Him to help them feel His love from you.
God, Thank You that You trust us to reach the world. Help us to not get so caught up judging the wrong that is going on around us, but instead to just show Your love. It is my prayer that people will be set free that way that You have allowed me to be set free....and experience the true purpose that You have for their life. In Jesus name, Amen
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