Witnessing about what’s good and hopeful makes a life of peace and joy more sustainable. It increases my hope. To witness is to experience something. To be a witness is to tell what you’ve experienced. If you have experienced hope and encouragement, be a witness. Share it with others.
Unless you witness to it, people won’t know the many things that God is doing and has done in and around you. Go tell someone!
If you have witnessed God do anything, tell somebody! Without witnesses people will think that God isn’t doing much. A Christ-follower should be a witness, always pointing out the living Jesus, not a promoter pointing to self-acclaim. When few people are willing to personally witness to what the risen Jesus is doing, people begin to think that He’s not doing much.
Still, staying silent about what the risen Jesus is doing in and through them has become a way of life for far too many Christians. Perhaps they have hardened their heart and are no longer noticing Christ’s presence.
The power of a firsthand testimony about how Jesus is working in someone’s heart is immense. Don’t hide it! Humbly telling people how God is working in and around you can open up a conversation that might very well change their life.
If you’ve encountered Jesus, tell somebody. Jesus told His followers: “You shall be My witnesses.” If Jesus has done anything in your life, take the witness stand and testify about it.
Witnesses use words not to preach but to testify. Silence shuts down their witness. Speak up about what Jesus has done in you.
The way to witness about how Jesus is working in you is to speak from your heart with humility and honesty. Try it! Work on your willingness to listen directly to the risen Jesus so you can hear Him better and witness to what He tells you.
Effective Spirit-led witness to Christ is based on humility. “God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Christ’s Spirit-led witnesses bring a reality check. They testify (tell and show us) that there is more to life than we are seeing. They help us see what we’re missing so that we can taste and see greater peace and joy than we can imagine.
For Christ-followers the witness stand is everywhere they go. Will you take the stand for Christ? Your words that witness to the reality of the living Jesus may be the only witness that someone hears about Him.
It’s time for Christians
To fully realize
That we need
To verbalize
And put into words
What Jesus is doing
In and around us.
It hard to know
What motivates
A wordless witness.
Let people know
That anything good
They see in you
Comes from Jesus
Not from self-effort.
I witness Jesus
Working in, through
And around me
Every day,
So I can’t be silent.
I have to say,
The risen Jesus
Is the Way
To a sustainable life
Of peace and joy.
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