Sometimes when I have an opportunity to speak to someone about Christ I don’t. I get nervous. I am concerned about how they will respond. I become more interested in what they may think of me than I am about their standing with Christ. I am not proud of that. It is my reality though.
This morning I was reading in Psalm 67:1 – 2
. That took me on a short journey through a couple of other passages:
The summary of what I saw is that when we speak to someone about Christ:
that we are ambassadors who beg people to be reconciled to God. Truth is more often than not I feel more like a beggar than an ambassador.
Somehow this mix of passages encouraged me. I am not sure that understanding this will keep all the butterflies in my stomach at bay, but I am both comforted and challenged that when the opportunity to share Christ is there, God’s grace and the Holy Spirit have placed me there to speak “the utterances of God.” I pray for that grace to overwhelm me.
. That took me on a short journey through a couple of other passages:The summary of what I saw is that when we speak to someone about Christ:
- It is by God’s grace not our initiative.
- We are being sent by the Holy Spirit.
- We are to speak as if we were speaking the utterances of God.
that we are ambassadors who beg people to be reconciled to God. Truth is more often than not I feel more like a beggar than an ambassador.Somehow this mix of passages encouraged me. I am not sure that understanding this will keep all the butterflies in my stomach at bay, but I am both comforted and challenged that when the opportunity to share Christ is there, God’s grace and the Holy Spirit have placed me there to speak “the utterances of God.” I pray for that grace to overwhelm me.
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