Our life is God’s
love letter to the world. He uses us to communicate to our friends, relatives,
associates and neighbors that He cares about them (2 Corinthians 3:3).
If we do not take
the time to reach out to these significant people in our life, we deprive them
of the love of God through us.
We may even shut
up the Kingdom of Heaven to them and their blood will be on our hands (Ezekiel
3:18-20). It is important that we at least plant a seed of God's love in
everyone we meet.
It is easy to do
this. We can give them our church bulletin and invite them to join us the next
week. Offering them a ride to the grocery store or to church is another easy
way.
We can hand them a
tract with spiritual truth that they may otherwise never know. Starting a
spiritual book club or Bible study in our neighborhood is another great way to
reach out.
There are retired
women and men in our church who would gladly teach such a study if we ask them;
or there are great study guides in the Christian bookstore to use as a text.
We can bake a cake
for a bereaved family, give a homemade card to a sick neighbor, or baby sit for
a young couple to have a date night.
The possibilities
are endless, if we listen to God's Spirit and follow His directives. God equips
us to walk in His will through Christ in us (Hebrews 13:20).
With Christ living
within us, we experience rest for our soul (Matthew 11:29). We stop striving to
perform for God, because Christ works through us (Psalm 46:10; Matthew
6:28-33).
This eternal rest
is only available if we take our focus in life off the temporal aspects of our
existence and place it squarely on eternal matters instead (2 Corinthians
4:18).
Prayer:
Father God, You
gave us Your eternal life, which no one can take from us (John 10:28). We are
joined to You, and we are beneficiaries of Your divine nature (1 Corinthians
6:17; 2 Peter 1:4). We have constant fellowship with You, the Son and the
Spirit (1 John 1:3, 9; Phil 2:1).
You placed us in
Christ Jesus and we are seated in heavenly places in Him (1 Corinthians 1:30;
Ephesians 2:6). You provide every spiritual blessing for us in Christ
(Ephesians 1:3). Help us to share Your love with those You put into our life. We
want to give You all the honor and glory for everything we think, say and do
each moment of the day.
Thought for the
Day:
The love and integrity of the testimony of our life for God may be the
difference in someone believing in or rejecting Jesus as their Savior.
