What thoughts come to your mind when you contemplate the awesome salvation you enjoy because of Jesus’ sacrifice for you? If you are like me, when you see in your mind’s eye Jesus hanging on the cross and then victoriously exiting the tomb on the third day you probably have emotions and thoughts of sadness, astonishment, joy, gratitude, humility, and love. How about this consideration: when you think of your own salvation does your mind ever take you to thoughts of accountability, responsibility, and stewardship? By that I mean does Jesus saving you move you to think and act to help others be saved by sharing the Good News of Jesus with people you care about? Whenever I grasp how blessed I am my very next thought in my mind is that I have to help others. I love the song I Know by MercyMe. Read Matthew 1:21-23; 9:35-38; Luke 19:10 and I Corinthians 9:16-22 and be moved by this song to share your faith. Maybe forward these morning devotionals to people you would love to see saved like you.

Matthew 1:21-23

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

Matthew 9:35-38

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

1 Corinthians 9:16-22

For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! If I preach voluntarily, I have a reward; if not voluntarily, I am simply discharging the trust committed to me. What then is my reward? Just this: that in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not make full use of my rights as a preacher of the gospel.

Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.