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  9:35-38 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 9:35-38

Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness.

Seeing the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, plead with the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

1 Corinthians 9:16-22

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast about, for I am under compulsion; for woe to me if I do not preach the gospel. For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a commission nonetheless. What, then, is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may offer the gospel without charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though not being under the Law myself, so that I might gain those who are under the Law; to those who are without the Law, I became as one without the Law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might gain those who are without the Law. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some.