Key Verse: Verse 6- "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
Key Words: He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
A black pastor of a Baptist church was speaking to a group of college students one day and said, “Children, you are going to die! One of these days they are going to take you out to the cemetery, drop you in a hole, throw some dirt on your face, and go back to the church and eat fried chicken and potato salad.”
When you were born, you alone cried and everyone else was happy. The important question is, when you die, are you alone going to be happy leaving everyone else to cry? The answer depends on whether you live to get titles or live to get testimonies. When they lay you in the grave, are people going to be reciting the fancy titles you have earned, or are they going to stand around giving testimonies of the good done for God’s glory? Will you leave behind just some newspaper column telling people how important you were; or will you leave behind weeping people who tell what a friend you were to Jesus?
Now, there is nothing wrong with titles. Titles are good to have but if it ever comes down to a choice between a title or a testimony, go for the testimony. You see, we live on after death in two ways. We live on in eternity with Christ, and we live on in the lives of those we have touched for Christ.
Jesus, as of today, has never ruled a nation, or never led an army; yet the message of Jesus lives today in every corner of the world. This hasn’t happened because Jesus was a master of mass communication techniques, or management skills, or leadership training seminars; but because He gave His life for others. He invested His life and message in people.
Today we get all caught up in numbers, or how large this ministry is, and how many this church has. Well, since we are so numbers driven, let me share some numbers with you. If you reach one person for Christ over the next calendar year, and you teach them to reach one person, and they teach one person, so on and so forth; do you realize that over a thirty-year period, the world could be reached three times over?
Blaise Pascal once said, “The present is never our goal. The future is our goal. What joy it would be for us one day to look back on our lives and realize that it didn’t end with a sermon, lesson, or a few years in the home, but our work lives on in the lives of those we influenced and continues to multiply through them.”
May God bless you as you reach your family, your class, your friends, your fellow employees for Christ so your message of Jesus Christ can live on in and through them.
What to do:
✞Set a goal for reaching people for Christ. All of us have an impact on someone, either good or bad.
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