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G. John White's first devotional Sold out for Jesus covers 12 vital themes of Christianity.
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February Topic: WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING |
This month I want us to look at why we are still on earth! We are not in Heaven yet - we are destined to go there - and many of us would like to go there quickly (be it to escape the present, be released from the pain experienced on earth or just out of an overwhelming desire to "be with Jesus"). So why can't we go there straight away once we have become a Christian? Maybe there is still something for me to do or become on earth. Let's together have a look at what we are here for... |
Matthew 10:7
GO PREACH - THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR!
If it was near then - we must be "touching" it by now!
Someone once said that the vast oceans have a near side and a far side. If you take the mighty Atlantic or Pacific, you realise very quickly, that in many ways they are totally indescribable because they are so vast in comparison to man's vocabulary.
How can I know the Pacific Ocean when it stretches from the North Pole to the South Pole; from the Americas to Japan and China; and from Peru, Ecuador and Chile to New Zealand and Australia?
And yet it has a "near side". I can "paddle" in its pure waters on the eastern beaches of Auckland, or snorkel in Hawaii and say, "I know" the Pacific Ocean.
So with God. He is so big, so strong and so mighty - words cannot "contain" Him but He is "small" enough to live within my heart.
As someone wrote:
"Could we with ink the ocean fill;
And were the skies of parchment made;
Were every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky."
The Kingdom of Heaven is great, but never forget - it has a near side. As we preach it and try as inadequately as we do to describe it's majesty and power, let's never forget it has a "near side", for it is the "near side" the people need to know.
For a swimmer there is a difference between swimming the Pacific and swimming IN the Pacific.
Our new listeners, enquirers, need to hear of the love of God which reaches out to them and meets their individual need of God, before we start "sharing" with them how God is going to change their habits which offend and annoy us.
God met us at our point of need, and He calls us to meet them at theirs.
As you proclaim the Kingdom of Heaven, never stray far from the near side!
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