March 14
If we love the Lord as we profess to do, it is the longing of our heart to serve Him. That is not to negate the every-day hopes and dreams we have for ourselves and for our families. That is not to say we become ‘so heavenly minded that we’re no earthly good,’ that is to acknowledge that the top priority of our lives is to be useful to Him.
Does this require us to abandon our career, leave our home and head to a mission field on the other side of the earth? For some believers it might mean just that, but for the preponderance of us it means simply to “occupy until I come” Luke 19:13. It means to share our faith with those near at hand. It means to allow our lives to be living epistles that testify of Jesus and His salvation.
How can we do that successfully? What techniques, what strategies can we employ that will enable us to interject the faith we have in our Savior—in the One who died to set us free from sin and to equip us for life on Earth as well as for eternal life in Heaven—into the lives of those around us? We know we can’t do it on our own. It requires the help of the Holy Spirit within us to project our faith in a way that compels others to believe.
We also have another insight from the Word itself which says in Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” The counsel seems to be that if we will live our faith, our faith will itself teach and admonish those around us. If we make Jesus our priority, our faith will shine through the way we live before Him—and before those whose lives touch ours.
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