Make Disciples—A Duty & A Privilege
Today, the sunrise was breathtaking!
Today, the sunrise was gorgeous, and outside my window, the darkness still covered this side of the earth.
That’s right. Today I saw the sunrise even while I sat on the other side of the world in total darkness.
Yes, that’s correct.
Even though I sat thousands of miles away, the image outside the window of the plane (where she set, recording the sunrise on the other side of the world) revealed the power of the God over this universe!
A Single Sunrise—
- So Expected & yet
- So Predictable & although
- So Amazingly Wonderful &
- So Most Majestic.
Yet, it is truth, we are only granted so many to see, to experience, to live.
Jesus knew exactly how many sunrises He would experience during the years He walked upon the face of the earth. Maybe that’s why He warned His disciples before His last sunrise came. Most assuredly, Jesus knew they needed to be warned how life would be impossibly difficult and how they would need The Comforter once Jesus had returned back to heaven. With the warning—
- Do not return to sin.
- Do not turn away from His Commission. &
- Do not forget that Jesus remains within us.
Jesus said:
“But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
(John 16: 5-11 NASB)
But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart.
But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment:
regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me;
and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer are going to see Me;
and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.”
It is a DUTY & a PRIVILEGE to make disciples of all nations!
God’s Salvation reaches to the ends of the earth.
“(For I am honored in the
(Isaiah 49: 5b-7 NASB)
sight of the LORD,
And My God is My strength),
He says, “It is too small a thing
that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to
restore the protected ones of Israel;
I will also make You a
light of the nations
So that My salvation may reach
to the ends of the earth.”
This is what the LORD, the Redeemer
of Israel and its Holy One,
Says to the despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers;
“Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also bow down,
Because of the LORD who is
faithful, the Holy One of Israel
who has chosen You.”
So, we bow and pray.
- We lift our petitions to our LORD.
- We ask, knowing our Father will hear the petitions of His children.
- We ask with confidence—not in the answer we seek but with confidence in the God whose power, wisdom, and knowledge are eternal, infinite, and perfect!
So, we witness to others, telling them our story.
- We speak, telling them how we met Jesus.
- We talk, explaining how Jesus changed us, making us brand new.
We seek God’s direction as we walk, wondering and asking—LORD, who would You like me to speak with today?
Let us
- Engage people in conversations about the God we serve, &
- Welcome the questions of those who do not yet believe in Jesus, the Son of God.
May we remember to offer a
- Prayerful witness, &
- Make disciples as we go throughout this single day God has given us to live.
Let us not waste this most beautiful sunrise to share Jesus with the world.
- It is our call to duty!
- It is our missionary walk!
- It is our privilege to serve our Lord Jesus Christ!
“But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
(John 16: 7-8 NASB)
And He, when He comes, will convict the world
regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment: . . . “