“For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”

               -Acts 4:20

Any person who has both truly and fully experienced the amazing grace of God should feel within himself an irresistible desire to share the truth of judgment and salvation with the world around him. The good news of redemption is for all men (Luke 2:10), and no act is more selfish than that of concealing the Gospel from those who desperately need to hear it. Rather than dancing around the truth we ourselves have received, as Christians we should recognize that time is not at all the world’s friend and that this very day is our best, and perhaps last, chance to tell someone how they can be “…justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:24)

What if, at this very moment, you were suddenly found in the presence of your Lord? What if you were now asked to give an account of your life and whatever fruit you did or did not bear? Without a doubt most of us would find ourselves very sorely embarrassed at remembering the countless opportunities we blatantly wasted only for fear of sounding silly and unlearned.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

               -II Timothy 2:15

As Paul reminded Timothy, it is entirely unnecessary that you one day stand before your Savior with a marred conscience. Rather than living a life of comfortable complacency, let us instead study to show ourselves approved unto God as workmen that “…needeth not to be ashamed.”  The world cannot possibly believe in a Gospel they’ve never heard (Romans 10:14), and it’s our job to let God make of us His mouthpiece to a broken and sin-filled world (Jeremiah 1:7).