Use All Your Resources
We serve a God of creativity, who uses the common, unorthodox, obvious and not so obvious ways to show His love for His people. Likewise, as Christians, there are innumerable ways for us to reach the world for Christ.
Technologically, we have the Internet, which we can use to reach millions of people. Not long ago, faxes were the most common form of communication. Before that, we had teletype. And before that, there was, and still is, telegrams.
One Christmas I received a telegram from Bangladesh stating a great need for additional polio vaccine. I bought an ice chest, acquired the polio vaccine and purchased those blue ice packs to keep the vaccine cold. I looked inside the cooler and still had ample space for something else, but what?
With it being Christmastime, I bought a Butterball turkey. Now that the cooler was full, I flew from Atlanta, Ga. to Dhaka, Bangladesh. Armed with polio vaccine, we vaccinated 500 children from this disease that is prevalent in Asia, but virtually non-existent in the United States. We then all gathered in the jungles of Bangladesh and enjoyed the Butterball turkey.
It is not difficult to change the world for Jesus Christ; we simply need to be obedient to God. Jesus told a parable of the “great supper” in Luke 14:15-24. When all those invited to the supper failed to attend for various excuses, the master told the servant to then go and bring in those who were lame, poor and blind. Again, the room around the banquet table was sparse. The master ordered the servant to:
“Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”
Likewise, Christ’s command to us is to go to the ends of the earth to draw all men unto Him.
