With blessing comes responsibility. It’s not right for a person to have been cured of a disease and know what will cure others, and not tell them. It’s not right for us to have found water when we were dying of thirst and not tell others where to get that same water that will save their life. With blessing comes responsibility.
Someone cared enough about us to share Jesus and His wonderful salvation with us. They sacrificed their time and maybe even suffered along the way for their faithful efforts to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. It may have been a parent, bible class teacher, preacher, friend, business acquaintance, a caring stranger who knocked on your door, or someone you met while traveling. Those who truly appreciate what God has done for them in Christ feel a sense of accountability and responsibility to help others.
Jesus cared so much for us that He left the glory of heaven to save us. He loved us so much that He laid down His life for us that we might be saved. May we feel the compassionate love Jesus had for the lost that we will pray for them, sacrifice our time and resources, and go out on a limb and share Jesus with them. We know in advance that some are going to be irritated with us, try to embarrass and shame us, and maybe even judge us as one of those “Jesus freaks”. We don’t have to judge them – we just share Jesus because someone cared enough to share Jesus with us and we just want to pass on the gift of eternal life.
Really, how hard is it in this age of technology to email a friend, text a relative, Facebook everybody and his brother, or call a coworker and invite them to our church website to view a sermon? It’s not hard – it just requires the following ingredients in our hearts: love for the lost, concern for the souls of others, gratitude for our own salvation, and a sense of responsibility that spills over from personally being so blessed in Christ.
When Isaiah was forgiven of his sins the first words out of his mouth were, “Here am I. Send me” (Isaiah 6:8). May we have that spiritually-natural response to being forgiven. One of the stanzas in today’s song reads:
Let me not be blind with privilege – Give me eyes to see the pain
Let the blessing You’ve poured out on me – Not be spent on me in vain.
Read Isaiah 6:1-8. Then listen to I Will Go by Starfield. After that stick your neck out and invite everyone you can think of and continue to do so until Jesus comes.
Isaiah 6:1-8
In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Seraphim were standing above Him, each having six wings: with two each covered his face, and with two each covered his feet, and with two each flew. And one called out to another and said,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of armies.
The whole earth is full of His glory.”
And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. Then I said,
“Woe to me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.”
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your guilt is taken away and atonement is made for your sin.”
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”