Sorry for the long break! My great friends who are also diligent readers have been nudging me to write a new post. Not that I didn’t want to, but there was Shiloh week (hope to share the revelations from this in another post) and then finals week, good news! I’m done with my first semester! I remember my first day of school like yesterday, time seems to go really fast, but I’m not complaining. Christmas time is here! 4 days to go!! I am more than excited, Christmas is my favorite time of the year even before my birthday. Anyway, we will be going back to our topic on love and loving others. This time of the year is the best to demonstrate love because it celebrates the time love was born (the Christmas card I’m giving out this year has ‘Love is Born’ as its message). Jesus is Love, He left His beautiful heavenly home to come to earth so that He could take all our sins and make us whole in Him. No love beats that! I’m sure as we celebrate our saviors birth He wants us to show love to others as well. He desires that we share the love He has freely given us. Yes, you can give cards and presents but its way more than that, the greatest thing you can do for a person is to share the Love of Christ with them, the greatest Love story ever told!
I felt I hadn’t been sharing the gospel with people and telling them about the love of God. So one day I decided I’ll start by giving out tracts (Christian pamphlets) on the bus I took to work. My heart beat so fast as I feared rejection and embarrassment, I took the time to study my potential converts, some were lost in thought, others were in conversation and the rest were sleeping. My hands became sweaty as I pulled the tracts out of my bag and onto my laps, I started feeling hot inside. ‘I don’t have to do this’ I began to think. ‘Yes you do’ I heard in my spirit. ‘But they’ll reject it, they will start looking at me weird,’ I gently put the tracts back into my bag. Then I heard ‘You keep saying you love me and will always put me first, what’s stopping you now? In a feeble attempt to defend myself I replied, ‘I do love You, I love You more than anything, You are the reason I am what I am, but this is so hard for me!’ I nearly started crying. ‘This is the “anything.” Huh? That couldn’t have hit me more, what was I thinking?! If I really did love God I should be willing to put my fear of rejection aside. ‘Make this easy for me please!’ I whispered. I took the tracts again; I didn’t want to think about it anymore. Why was this so difficult for me to do? I see other people doing it did they feel the way I did now? ‘This is for you’ I said as I handed the first tract to the man beside me and counted 2 more for the people besides him, then I gave to the people at the back and in front. It was going all so well, everyone was taking the tract, and then I heard ‘give her back I do not want.’ As they passed it back to me I didn’t feel rejected, though I had hoped everybody would accept it, I felt really light like I had just won a huge battle. What made me so happy was the fact that I was able to put my fear and shyness aside and put God first.
Christmas comes with so many goodies that sometimes we get carried away with the fun of it all. But I believe it is the perfect time to tell others about Jesus, thereby drawing them to Him. So while we’re celebrating let’s not forget to put the reason for the season first by doing what He would love us to do the most, sharing this precious message of love.
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