Grow in God's Love Each Morning!

Word Of God:

“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.” - 1 Timothy 2:5-6

Daily Devotion:

Hurry up!

"Give a serving to seven and also to eight,for you do not know what evil will be on the earth" (Eccl 11:12)

One of the most important things to be learnt from Jesus for evangelism is the sense of urgency. He had no time to waste. So much had to be accomplished in so short a time. He had just a little over three years for His public ministry. There was no panicking at His death. On the other hand He triumphantly declared, "It is finished!" What a model!

We need rest but we can't relax. Over 1,20,000 persons die each day. Floods, earthquakes and other calamities claim thousands and thousands of lives. Some countries are closing doors, but many others are opening them to evangelism. This is a day of opportunities. This is a day of Good News (2 Ki 7:9). The Lord of the Harvest is perhaps giving the Church the last chance to gather in the grains. This is the eleventh hour (Mt 20:6). If we delay, the harvest will waste. Let's hurry up!

Let's not postpone to tomorrow what we can do today. Tomorrow is not ours. We do not know what will happen tomorrow (Prov 27:1). "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation!" (2 Cor 6:2) — To preach the gospel! To plant churches everywhere! To prepare a people ready for the Lord!

In Capernaum the Lord had a wonderful reception. But in Nazareth the people rejected Him (Mt 13:53-58). But nothing discouraged Him. He kept on going. He kept on preaching. He kept on spreading the message of the Kingdom. Let us have the same zeal of the old saints of God and decide to introduce the Saviour atleast to one person a day.

Every Christian must be a missionary. Every non-Christian is a mission field. Let's give ourselves to nonstop evangelism until the last person is reached. We should not end our work until we witness to the ends of the earth or our life is ended, whichever comes first!

Jesus "sat down" only after He finished His work (Mk 16:19). Let's not sit until the job is done! Always and everywhere we are under orders to evangelize. That is the only reason for our being on earth!

O Zion, haste thy mission high fulfilled,

To tell all the world that God is light;

That He who made all the nations is not willing,

Any soul should perish, lost in shades of night! - (Mary A. Thomson)

Prayer:

O Lord my God, I bless thy holy name for this mercy, which I have now received from thy bounty and goodness. Feed now my soul with thy grace, that I may make it my meat and drink to do thy gracious will, through Jesus Christ my Saviour. Amen.