Pass It On....

What if one day you are in your back yard and you see a beautiful flower you’ve never seen before. It intrigues you so much with its unique beauty and fragrance, you pluck it out of the ground and put it in a vase in your home. The fragrance fills the air with an aroma so pleasing, no matter how you are feeling it brings joy to your soul every time you walk into the room where it’s displayed. One day a friend of yours visits and tells you that this flower is so rare, it’s value is immeasurable. You get so excited you want to show the world. So many people that have never seen it, would be brought joy if they only see a picture of it. You learn of it’s value, and it’s special joy-bringing properties that you hire a special photographer (had to put this in here 😜) to capture it’s unique beauty. You start posting the image on the internet and it goes viral. Two billion viewers in the first week. The sight of this flower alone, brings joy to the world. The world stops fighting. Wars end. Violent acts stop. People treat each other with care and concern. All of this because you found something that brought you joy and shared it with the world, something you witnessed firsthand. You know where I’m going with this by now. The point to all of this is this: if we don’t share what we know to be true about God, Jesus, then some may never get to experience the joy that salvation brings to a condemned soul. Those who see have to pass it on to those who haven’t seen. Our duty (we are commanded to do), is to preach the Gospel and make disciples. We do that by speaking and living truthful lives, experiencing God firsthand, and loving others. We need to pass on what we know to be true, to those that may have never heard or understand the truth of the Gospel. We share the truth (Jesus), and God does the rest.

1 “You must love the Lord your God and obey all His requirements, decrees, regulations, and commands. 2 Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of the Lord your God or seen His greatness and His strong hand and powerful arm. 3 They didn’t see the miraculous signs and wonders He performed in Egypt against Pharaoh and all his land. 4 They didn’t see what the Lord did to the armies of Egypt and to their horses and chariots–how He drowned them in the Red Sea as they were chasing you. He destroyed them, and they have not recovered to this very day!5 “Your children didn’t see how the Lord cared for you in the wilderness until you arrived here. 6 They didn’t see what He did to Dathan and Abiram (the sons of Eliab, a descendant of Reuben) when the earth opened its mouth in the Israelite camp and swallowed them, along with their households and tents and every living thing that belonged to them. 7 But you have seen the Lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes! Deuteronomy 11:1-7

18 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. 19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors. Deuteronomy 11:18-21