Our Turn to Speak

DEVOTION

2 CORINTHIANS

OUR TURN TO SPEAK

2 Cor 4:13-15

13 It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

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It was David who wrote that in one of his psalms and we know how much he believed. We also know how much Paul believed and what he has written. Both men inspired by the Spirit to write for the benefit of all of mankind. Both men spoke about God in such a real sense, never doubting for a moment of the fact God exists and that he is active in their lives. Now it is our turn, maybe not to write such profound words, yet some of us might well write as inspired by God for the benefit of others to know and learn about God. But we all can speak up. We all can be inspired by God to speak about Jesus, about his life and his death; about his resurrection and that we will also be resurrection and join those others in the presence of God. This is what we believe because we know it to be a fact, not a theory, as those of the world believe in. All they have is theories of how things began, but we have facts. We need to speak those truths into the hearts and minds of others so they may benefit from the truth as we are. If we live out our life in Christ open and without reservations, speaking our heart in our conversations with everyone, then his grace will reach more and more and much thanksgiving will overflow to the glory of God. Silence only benefits Satan and his agenda. We cannot serve his purpose, for we must serve God and him alone, so we must speak up about Jesus, about his life and death, about his resurrection and about ours to come. Oh sure we talk about God and about faith and about Jesus and maybe even his teachings. But mostly we talk about what we cannot do as a Christian, we recite do’s and don’ts, we might even declare people have to believe in order to be saved, but do we proclaim his death and resurrection? Do we proclaim that only those who are born again will be resurrected into the presence of God? We hear unbelievers, those not born again, claiming a loved one is now in a better place, but that person had never been born again, if fact, never lived as a believer. How can we remain silent in those times? Is it cruel to tell them their love one may not be in the presence of God? Then again how do we actually know? How can we know the heart of that person in the coffin? Can we take that chance? We need to speak up before those we know die. We need to tell them about the opportunity to be resurrected into the presence of God. It is our turn to speak.