Are We Sincerely Speaking Christ into the World?
History tells us that the world is headed toward the worship of Jesus. Can we see it today in our world? Can we hear the rumble of Jesus’ return? Can we feel it clearly in the chatter and sense it within the people across the face of the earth? Maybe not, but what we see, hear, feel and sense cannot negate the fact that we are headed toward Christ’s return. Pause with me to read about the work of a missionary.
“Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
(The 2nd Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 3:4-6 NASB)
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves,
but our adequacy is from God,
who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant,
not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
The life of a believer in Jesus Christ does not cease at his death. After physical death comes eternal life in the presence of the Lord. In the same way, the life of an unbeliever does not cease at his death, whether a person agrees to that statement or not. Whom a person chooses to follow while living the earthly, physical life (Jesus Christ OR the devil, who is the enemy of the Lord) determines where the individual will live-out eternity. It’s just a matter of one’s decision to follow Christ (or not).
The apostle Paul became a believer on a particular day, while living his life, doing his job, and while walking from one place to another. As he went, the Lord Jesus Christ met him there on the road to Damascus, and when Paul encountered the Lord, he was knocked completely to the ground. From his encounter, Paul was led to see the new convent of Jesus, and this “newness” of life gave Paul confidence to do the practical work of proclaiming Jesus to the next person, the next town, the next territory, the next whatever he was led to in his earthly life. What does the missionary calling look like in the daily walk of a believer? It looks like a person who is daily living for Jesus.
The plan of Jesus was not for you and I to be saved and for our salvation to end with us. No. The Lord’s commission was for believers to be His people, going into the world. We are called to “communicate” the gospel in new places, in new languages, in new groups of people. We are to go wherever He calls us to go, and do whatever He calls us to do, and even speak the words His Spirit leads us to speak.
Truly, we are to be the instruments of God.
Consider: If God is God, and if God dwells within His chosen ones, then there is nothing that can prevail against us. Christianity does not mean what the world seems to proclaim it to be. To the world, it’s habitual attendance, or belonging to this church or that church, and it’s a label we wear.
- However, could it be that “little Christ” (Christian) is much more?
- Could it be that Christian means we abandon the familiar, the comfortable? &
- Could it be that we strike out against the norm and rediscover the Person of Jesus?
May we remember that the point of prayer is not the power that prayer releases but the Person our prayers reveal.
- May we recall how we do not pray for any other reason than to communicate with the Lord Jesus Christ.
- May we believe in the power of Jesus.
- May we seek His help to walk through this day. &
- May we not wear our crosses around our necks or our holy t-shirts without being willing to speak Jesus to those we meet.
- May we not see the label we wear, but may we—SEE JESUS!
We are to become serious about searching for God daily. As we want Him more and more, we will find that we want Jesus more than anything else. In Him, we will never be disappointed. So, today, on this second day of Holy Week, might we need to stop, turn around if we find that we’ve been going the wrong way, and begin to walk toward home—our heavenly home? As we do, we will encounter those who are headed in the other direction, not walking toward eternal LIFE in heaven, but living and walking toward DEATH and separation.
There is a song that might need to be sung this week: Holy Week.
Read the lyrics and hear the song in your head.
“I’m comin’ back to the heart of worship
(“The Heart of Worship” by Matthew Redman)
And it’s all about You
It’s all about You, Jesus.
I’m sorry, Lord, for the thing I’ve made it
When it’s all about You
It’s all about You, Jesus.”
In history, this is 2026, Holy Week, and we are walking toward Easter, Resurrection Sunday. We know that His-Story is moving toward the return of Christ, toward the worship of Jesus. Are we fixated on the Person of Jesus? Are we looking for Him? Can we hear the rumble of Jesus’ return? Can we sense it within our being? Are we the missionary to those who are not yet ready? Can they even smell Jesus when we are near? OR Do we smell too much like the surrounding world?
“For we are a fragrance of Christ to God
(The 2nd Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 2:15-17 NASB)
among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;
to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life.
And who is adequate for these things?
For we are not like many, peddling the word of God,
but as from sincerity, but as from God,
we speak in Christ in the sight of God.”