You are to be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.-Acts 22:15
In this chapter, Paul told the story (in Hebrew) of when he was in Damascus. In the beginning, he was authorized to hunt down Christians and arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem for sentencing. While he was there, a bright light shown down on him and he fell to the ground. That light was Jesus. Jesus told Paul to go into town and be a witness to the people of
what he had just seen and heard.
Imagine...A blinding light...What a powerful and scary way to get the message. As we go about our business everyday, we have to be a witness of Christ, because once we say we are "Christian", how we live our life, how we treat people etc will be watched by everyone. Maybe they will ask 'why' you act or think the way you do and that will open the door to your telling them about Christ. That is called evangelism and we don't want to miss that opportunity to respond. That is what Christ mandates.
I keep a small outline in my Bible of seven simple reasons why God should be in our lives and I have to read them frequently because often I need to be reminded. But in the end, we can all witness in little ways and, who knows, those little ways can mean big things happening in someone's life. Them just knowing that God loves them may be enough to open even more doors.
Amen.
