As we reflected back over the past several weeks studies in the Old Testament, we saw over and over how God would send a prophet to speak to the Jews. The prophet was recognized as being a man of God and the words he spoke were given special attention. God would insert His chosen person into a worldly situation to deliver His truth.
Today, God inserts believers into situations to deliver His truth...the mission of His church...but do we realize that we are the person God is depending on? The world is in need of healing today as it was when God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, as a prescription to heal the world. We are the prescribed medicine today that Jesus sends to continue His work. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament were set apart to bring God's word, we have been set apart to do the same thing.
God wants us to be the Christian in the workplace, the light in times of suffering and despair, and the witness when lies and slander are dominating the conversation. Paul petitioned Timothy (1 Timothy: 3) to be an example for the church. Paul identified the qualities of church leaders so that the world would have examples of the life Christ desires for all people. We are the church today and Christ's qualities have not been changed. We; the church, are the prescription for today's troubled world and if we follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, God's truth and love will accomplish all that He sends it to accomplsh (Isaiah 55: 11).
Discover and Proclaim the Truth of The Bible which is: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life." (John 3:16 NRSV). Jesus came to humanity to proclaim and give evidence to that love and He has commanded us to do the same. We, who believe, must not merely be followers, but we must be proclaimers of the Gospel Message and we can only do that by being filled with the love of God.
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