I will now start the new month with the beginning of a new book of the Bible.
Tonight I read Acts 1.
Two particular verses I feel are extremely important.
“8 ‘But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.’ “
This verse is the giving of our mission. We shall. Not we might or could. We shall. We will. We will be His witnesses wherever we go, whatever we are doing. Our challenge set by Jesus Christ is to witness to all we come in contact with. And again, pretaining to teens: It does not say “and you adults shall be my witnesses” We, the children of God shall be his witnesses, wheteher we are 10, 19, 35, 67, or 102, if we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are his witnesses to all the people of the world.
Second verse is Acts 1:11
“11 and said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.’ “
This is assurance from the Lord that Jesus will one day return and take us home. Well, that’s great! For us. We need to work to make it great for everybody, so that everybody will be taken home with Jesus to heaven. That is what we must live for. Not for ourselves.
We must exist “to make Christ famous by doing whatever we can, wherever we can, to fill the world with impassioned worshipers of the one true God.”
-Quoted from the TFC Vision Statement of Sovereign Grace Minsitries, Toms River, NJ
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