I know a young college student and his heart is wide open to serve the Lord. He is going to a secular college and is attending a bible study twice a week through a Christian ministry. On campus he has engaged other students with the Gospel and asked them to attend bible study with him. His offers have been rejected by everyone he has asked. When I heard this I wanted to feel sorry for him but by the grace of God that is not where this man’s concerns were. He knew he was serving the Lord and he was unconcerned for his feelings. He was concerned about the souls of the students who didn’t know Jesus. He plans to continue with bible study and he’ll continue to invite people knowing he may be planting seeds by the word of God for a later time and may not see the harvest. I believe God will reward his faithfulness.Sharing your faith is one of the hardest parts of the Christian walk. God has given an awesome gift and I want the whole world to know that Jesus came to this world and freely gave his life so we can be forgiven. Some people will read this and think a man giving his life for another man is just foolishness. That is because they don’t even realize they need salvation. Some will not believe that God created everything seen and unseen. Regardless of what they believe God did create everything including human beings. God created everything perfect and God walked with man in the beginning. Sin changed all that. Sin separated God and man and the curse of death was upon man. Even though sin separated us from God, he had a plan for our salvation. Jesus is that savior. Jesus the Son of God being fully God and fully man lived a sinless life. He demonstrated his authority as the Messiah by performing great miracles. He healed the sick, brought sight to the blind, the lame walked and the dead lived again. He taught the truth of the Kingdom of God and was put to death by the people he came to save as a criminal. He was crucified on a Roman cross and while dying God laid on him the sins of all mankind past, present and future. Three days later he rose from the dead crushing sin and death under him. He was seen by hundreds of his followers in the forty days after his resurrection and this is written in the scriptures. Jesus paid the price for my sin, your sin and the sin of anyone who by faith will accept this free gift of Jesus. Accept it and it will change your life.
I am a follower of Jesus and sometime sharing my faith with others is the hardest thing to do. Even though I know Jesus is the only way to fellowship with God, Jesus is the only way to be forgiven of sin and Jesus is the only way to eternal life. It is still hard. But I do share. I have been mocked. I have been teased. I have been laughed at and worse. But Jesus called us to be the light of the world. Jesus called us to proclaim the gospel to all nations and make disciples. So I will. I am inspired by that young college student who keeps sharing and keeps sharing even though he has not seen the fruit of his labor. I am inspired by the thousands of persecuted Christians who even under the most severe adversity continue in faith to proclaim the Gospel. Many throughout history have given their lives to share this “Good News”. In my comfortable life I call it hard and no one has sought my life because of the gospel. My prayer tonight for me and all Christians is for God to grant us boldness to proclaim the truth of the Gospel in love.
