Jesus said to his followers, “Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone.” – Mark 16:15 (NCV)
God’s plan for us is to go into the world and share the Good News about him. His plan is not for us to sit back and take it easy and just enjoy the blessings I receive. I need to get out there and tell people.
Eventually everyone will be told of the Good News, we need to be a part of the completion of that task. We need to shift our perpectives from self-centered to God-centered. We need to go ahead and serve others, and part of that is telling them about the truth and what God has done for us personally.
Going into the world to share the message means the whole world, perhaps for some people it may mean overseas travel but for others it may be sharing locally to people who need our help, right within our community. Needs are everywhere, just keeping your spiritual eyes and ears open you help you see them.
Pray for all those you come into contact with and those you don’t. Prayer can overcome anything, not everyone will like what you have to say, but when God works in their heart, they won’t be able to resist.
“Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is on its way out.” So put your eyes on the eternal, that which matters for all eternity. Invest in eternity by doing your part in the mission that God has sent you on. Stuff that happens from day to day only matters now, once you pass on to eternal life in heaven it won’t matter at all.
Changing our thinking to a mindset of thinking of ways to share the gospel is an important step. How many ways have you thought of to bring God into your conversations and interactions with others. If you’re like most people, we just tend to get on with things and sometimes hope God steps in. But we need to initiate things, make those efforts to share, make an action plan of how you will share with others, after you have done that, sharing will become much easier, it’s just something new we need to learn.
All of our excuses come to nothing in the end. When we come before God, are you going to justify non-action? God will not like that. So shift your focus to where it needs to be and do it with urgency, because time is running out.