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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Evangelizing and Witnessing, #7
About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?" "Who are you, Lord?" I asked. "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting"' he replied. (Acts 22:6-8—NIV)
And then there was the Apostle Paul. "I'm telling you I saw Him! I heard His voice! I was struck blind! Then a Christian prayed for me and I could see. I know that Jesus is the Christ.
"Later I went into the wilderness and there Jesus showed me how the Law of Moses and the grace of Jesus Christ are related. I am telling you what I know, what I learned from the Lord. The other Apostles added nothing to me. This is what I heard and I saw."
Are you getting the idea of what it means to be a witness? Witnesses are formed in the Divine fire over many years. When God is finished with them they are not reeds shaken by the wind. They know what they are talking about. They have seen the Man!
I am not saying we all will have a testimony like Daniel and Saul of Tarsus or that we cannot express our faith, even as a new Christian. Rather I am pointing out the difference among evangelizing, witnessing, and proselytizing.
We can begin when we are a new Christian to show in our personality the Divine life that has come to us through Jesus Christ. We do not have to preach to people, just live the life. This is what the whole world is waiting to see.
If the Lord grants us many years we will be able to say, "Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come." The Lord will bring us through the waters and through the fire. He keeps drawing us to Himself.
The witness is infinitely more than our recital of the plan of salvation. That task belongs primarily to the preacher. Rather our witness is what we have heard and seen with God throughout the years of our pilgrimage.
Our witness is of God, who He is, what He is like, what He expects of us, His faithfulness toward those who trust in Him, His great love for all of His creatures, His wrath against sin. God teaches us of Himself.
But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. (Isaiah 43:1,2)
"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior." (Isaiah 43:10,11)
This is the witness: "That you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior."
To be continued.