Be Active

DEVOTION
PHILIMON
BE ACTIVE
Philem 6-7
6 I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
NIV
To be active in sharing my faith is, of course, one of the greatest things I can do for anyone. Although because of my faith I have benefited far more than I could ever have imagined. I have been blessed beyond anything I could have hoped for. My life so far has been an incredible journey and I suspect it is not over yet. There is still more blessings to come. But that is all about me, and my life because of my faith and that is not the all of it. I must be active in sharing my faith. This requires much interaction with those who have not got the faith. I don’t think this is speaking t sharing my faith with others who already know Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. I cannot just stick around within the confines of Christianity. I have to get out there where it is dirty and muddy among the unsaved. Neither can I just simply stand on the street corner with a bullhorn declaring “repent and be saved”. Nor can I just march around with a sign bearing John 3:16. No, I have to have personal contact, one on one, with people, develop a relationship and share my faith both in deeds and words. It is not a passion behavior, hoping someone will notice I am a believer; it is active, alive, and interactive with those who do not know Jesus. This is how I am to live, out in the grime of the world being an ambassador for Christ. And as I do this, I will continue to be blessed and much more. I will gain a greater understanding of all the good I have in Christ. I think if I just stick around all the other believers, I might lose sight of all the good things I have in Christ. Maybe there is nothing to compare it to, and if I am out in the filth of real life among those who are not a part of the body the Christ yet, I would see just how good I have it. Of course having been there at one time, I am fully aware of how horrible it is. I merely have to look back into my past to understand how wonderful my present is and how even greater my future will be. But that is no excuse for me to remain isolated amidst the church. I still have to be active in sharing my faith, I still have to get out and be among those who are in desperate need of salvation from their lifestyle which will lead to nothing but perishing. If I have any love, any compassion, any mercy at all within my being, I have to tell them about Jesus. I must be active.