Jul 27

Luke 8:1
Memorise John 4:34
“…In every place He went, He preached the Gospel…”

John 21:25 says that “there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written”. Jesus worked tirelessly while He was on this earth. In the three years of His public ministry, He did so many works for His Father that if you recorded them all down, there would be no space in this world to contain them. Luke 8:1 shows how Jesus “went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God”. He did not skip over any city or village and ensured He went to each one so that no person would be unreached. In every place He went, He preached the Gospel. He esteemed the preaching of the Gospel and doing God’s will as more important than His physical needs as seen in His testimony in John 4:34. He said, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work”. Jesus was entirely focused on completing God’s work and fulfilling His Father’s purpose of sending Him to this world. He evangelised the good news of salvation and then completed the work on the cross.

In just three years, Jesus’ ministry would fill the world with all His acts and words. We have been or probably would be, by God’s grace, Christians for a longer period than that. Have we been evangelising in every place we go like Christ did? Have we put preaching the Good News as our number one priority when we interact with others? Do we have the same focus as Christ in doing God’s will and trying our best to win souls to Him? Or maybe we have been too busy with our school work and activities to even think of evangelising? Perhaps we have let the fear of others’ perception of us dampen our courage to tell them of Christ. If so, our aims for this life have been misplaced. As God’s children, we should not just be living for our own physical or academic gain. We should be busy helping to expand our Father’s kingdom in the time which He has given us on this earth.

Thought: Pray for the unbelievers in your midst and think of how you might be a witness and testimony to them.
Prayer: Lord, grant me a love and fervency for Thy Kingdom, to diligently win souls for Thee.