If we want to point others to Jesus, then we need the Scripture hidden deep within our hearts.  This means, we need—

• To study God’s Word.
• To memorize God’s Word.
• To carry with us God’s Word.
• To copy down the passages found in God’s Word.
• To voice, sharing aloud, God’s Word.
• To be willing to explain to others God’s Word.
• To be ready to tell those we encounter to share the Gospel message of Jesus, the Word of God.

What this means is that we must ‘treasure’ God’s Word, allowing the Holy Spirit to teach us more about our Father, about His commandments, & we must keep away from the sins that so easily overtake us every single day we live.

The world tells us:  “Be quiet about our faith.  Don’t make it a big deal.  Just live quietly within your ‘religion,’ and everyone else will do the same.  Just be happy you are not lost like your neighbor and that you are saved from the fires of hell.”

Yep, this is exactly the lies that Satan places into the mouths and minds of our society.

HOWEVER—THE WORD of GOD TELLS US:

Trust God & Do not fear what the world can or will do.  Only fear the LORD.  Do not remain quiet in your faith but BE READY—IN SEASON & OUT OF SEASON—to tell others how Jesus Christ saved your soul.

As a child of God, we have the privilege of being Christ Jesus’ ambassadors everywhere we go, sharing the Gospel message with those individuals the Holy Spirit leads us to.  When an opportunity arises, we need to realize that God Himself has placed us directly in this divine appointment.  At that very moment, we have a choice—Witness about the way Jesus changed our heart as we testify about the powerful name of Jesus—

OR

Listen to the devil who consistently speaks lies into our minds, telling us to remain quiet, that this is not the time to speak, & that another time, a better time, will come—LATER.

It is a truth, we are given times to testify, to share our personal testimony when we least expect these opportunities.  Therefore, WE MUST BE READY!

So, we might ask:  HOW CAN WE BE READY?

This is such a great question!

Years ago, I read a book written by Corrie Ten Boom, a Jewish woman who suffered in a Concentration Camp during the anguish of the Holocaust.  The book is aptly titled Hiding Place.  Now, when she was captured by the Nazis, she was not given the opportunity to gather her precious items before she was marched into the women’s prison.  NO!  She was ordered to stand at attention in the ranks with the other captured women and then to march—empty handed, leaving all her possessions behind in her house.

Nonetheless, she was a believer, a Christian, and a devote student of the Bible, so what she took with her—buried deep inside her mind and heart was the Word of God.

As a teacher, whenever I taught my students about the Holocaust of the 1940s, I faithfully used the autobiographical writing of Corrie Ten Boom in class with my students.  I would recount how she wrote about the blessing of body lice because this infestation kept the ladies from being raped.

Then, I would share with my students how Corrie Ten Boom led Bible studies in the ladies’ prison, sharing the Word of God she had memorized, that she had ‘Hidden in her Heart.’

Years later (in one of my travels to Europe), I stood outside her home located in The Netherlands, in the city Haarlem.  I became overcome with emotion, knowing that she had read her Bible in that home, in her heart language—Dutch.

It was a powerful moment, one I will never forget.

Since my fiftieth birthday, I have decided to gift myself each year with a new Bible.  This year, I searched on Amazon and ordered a new Bible for myself, one written in Dutch.  Now, you may not know, but I have the privilege of serving as an American mom to a Dutch daughter, one who God brought into our lives in 2015.

• To say the journey has always been an easy one to traverse would not be speaking the truth.

In like manner—

• To say the reading of the Scripture in Dutch is easy would be speaking a lie because “It is challenging!”

Yet, each day as I study the Dutch language, learning new words, I find that I am able to read more and more of the Scripture written in Dutch.

Empty minds are easy to deceive, so we must saturate our minds with the Word of God.  It is vitally important that we never forget how we (God’s children) are to BE MISSION-FOCUSED, FOR WE ARE CHRIST’S AMBASSADORS!

• May we allow the truth of the Scripture to be the authority within our lives.
• May we be mindfully aware how the Holy Spirit is at work within the entire world.
• May we never forget how the body of Christ is a living, breathing—enormous group of believers who are directed by Christ Jesus Himself as our head.
• May we BE READY TO SHARE THE GOSPEL—READY TO BE ON-MISSION WITH HIM—FOCUSED ON GOD’S KINGDOM—EVEN AS WE WALK THROUGH THIS SINGLE DAY GOD HAS GIVEN US TO LIVE.