Daily devotion – Today is the day of witnessing!
With the weather being a little overcast and my mind filled with the events of the war in Israel, telling us that Christ’s coming for His Church is now imminent, I thought of the first time our Lord came.
It was a time again when the world was in great conflict, particularly in Israel. The glory days of king David’s reign were now a distant memory as Roman soldiers were now in control of David’s city, Jerusalem. The nation of Israel was under great oppression under the iron fist of Rome and the puppet king Herod.
The Bible has a theme, that theme is our God always comes to us in a time of trouble! He came to Adam and Eve when they were hiding from His face in the Garden of Eden.
He came through a man called Moses when the Israelites were 400 years under the cruel hand of Pharaoh’s whip.
Two thousand years have passed since the birth of Saviour, Lord and King, Jesus the Christ in a cave in Bethlehem – part of the West Bank today. To this day, October 27 when you read this blog, Christ’s life, His death, and His Resurrection continues to burn in its significance to a lost fallen world. His coming is always good news!
Without question, Jesus was the most extraordinary, influential and revolutionary man to ever walk across the stage of human history.
More books have been written about Jesus Christ than any other figure of the past. More music has been composed about Him than any other person who ever lived.
More paintings of Him have been created even though no one knows what He really looked like!
Christ’s life, from the book of Genesis all the way through to the last book of the Bible, Revelation, is His story and the story of God’s love for humanity. The world He created.
The Bible tells us clearly and pointedly that salvation, that is our confessing our sins to Christ, asking for His forgiveness and being born again, is the reason behind all that Christ came for and did. But also the Bible says that the decision to know Him, to become His disciple, to serve Him as our Lord and Saviour, is a decision that must be made now.
We cannot put off or delay this decision which is the most important action you can do in all your life and existence before you die.
2 Corinthians 6:2 – Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation!
We spend a lot of time talking with family, friends, work colleagues, fellow students and our neighbours. With the events in Israel let us take a step of faith and ask those whom we meet with, that we have prayed for, the most important question they need to hear. It needs to come from you! Ask them if today, they would like to ask Jesus Christ into their lives, to come to know their Creator who died on a Cross and who loves them so much.
What’s the worst thing that could happen? They could say no. They could ask you how Christ is in your life? How do you know God?
The best thing that could happen is that they will say yes, they just did not know what to do and have been fearful and wondering about the events of the world and what it all means. What is going to happen.
Let us stop playing best friends, who would rather not risk being rejected, than seeing those who God has sent us to, go to an eternity without Christ.
We must be more faithful to witness of the God who is love and have the faith and courage to share the ‘good news’ of why Christ came in the first place and that He is coming again!
Mar 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
The time is short!