This article was first posted on our Facebook page: Ablaze- for the Nations - Posts | Facebook (November 23, 2020) What would you do differently, if you know someone is waiting for you? Christmas is coming soon. And many of us celebrates it – some of us knowing why we celebrate, but most of us not. We recently made a video of this, please go and watch it, and please kindly read this. It is a huge privilege (which I can’t emphasize enough), of knowing the true reason of celebrating Christmas – His birth. And a much bigger privilege if we know the reason, and have also placed our trust in Him as our Lord and Saviour. Do you know that about 4.6 BILLION people, do not know about His birth? We are not even talking yet about those people who live in our communities who do not know Him yet – people who have the chance to live “near” to a believer. 86% of other religious adherents do not have personal contact with even a single Christian. They have not met you, yes you – whether you are a nominal Christian, born again, Catholic, evangelical, etc. 4.6 BILLION people are born, live their lives, and die, without a chance of even hearing the mention of His name – because we do not go to them. You may ask, how can this be in such a modern age of technology that they have not heard of the name Jesus? You, as a Christian do you know the names of other religious group leaders, gods and prophets? Let’s try it, can you name the “founder”, prophet, leader, or gods of the following religions: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism. How many of us know about the Sikhs? Or Sikhism? We may have “heard” of that word, but do we know about them? Similarly, many of those who make up the 4.6 BILLION people will not even know about the religion “Christianity”. 1 in 3 child born, will be born in a place 1 in 3 child born, will be born in a place where he or she will have zero access to the Gospel. No Christians near to him/her, no Christian schools, no Churches, not a single believer in his village, town nor city. And worst still, he speaks a language that the Bible hasn’t even been translated in to. Most of you who are reading this, are privileged – you may or may not have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, but you have the chance to make that decision. And for those of you who have Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, we may be taking this privilege for granted. How many of us are doing something in reaching non-Christians? Statistics shows that 91% of all Christian outreach/ evangelism targets other Christians (born again, Catholics, nominal Christians, etc). Let’s be honest and evaluate our ministries carefully, how much are we doing that are not targeting other Christians (but other religious groups)? If you are a leader, or church pastor, how much of our church ministries deals with reaching out to other religious groups? I am not saying that what we are doing is bad, or we should stop doing what we are doing. But are we obeying His commission? Yes, not all of us are called to uproot ourselves to another nation, but we can do many other things that plays a role too. You have this chance to hear the name Jesus, have the huge blessing to call yourself a Christian or Catholic, because someone came to your nation, to tell you that Jesus was born and died for you – to set you free. What are you doing, carrying this true Hope in you? More than half of the world is seeking for hope – actually everyone alive is seeking for Hope. Some have found Him, but most are left in the dark waiting, desperately seeking. What are you doing? How will they know if you do not go to them? Or at least do something. HEY! You have been ENTRUSTED with a message. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” God, entrusted you with this message of Hope, what are you doing with His trust? How much of what you are doing daily, contributes to His command – of making disciples of ALL NATIONS? God, entrusted you with this message of Hope, We get to celebrate Christmas because Mary said, “be it unto me, according to Your word.” She submitted herself to God. We get to celebrate Christmas because Joseph heeded God’s instruction to marry her. He obeyed God.
We get to celebrate Christmas because Jesus, Himself, left the throne above, took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. Obeying His Father. The lives of Mary and Joseph didn’t go as they planned or wanted it to be. Do you think Joseph wanted to go to Egypt? Do you think Mary planned to be pregnant before marriage? Why didn’t God waited for them to get married first? No, He doesn’t follow their timeline – and He is not going to follow your timeline anytime soon. But they obeyed the Father. As you celebrate Christmas this year, will you also obey His world in reaching ALL NATIONS, TRIBE and TONGUE? The 4.6 BILLION are not just numbers, they are also wonderfully and fearfully made in His image – JUST LIKE YOU. Will you remain silent and not do anything? And when you obey Him, your life will NOT go as how you plan it to be. BILLIONS are waiting for you – you are the light of the world; you carry this true Hope in you. Now, bring it to the waiting world.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AblazeWritings that resound His heart, awakening a generation to the cries of this world ArchivesCategories |