A Shining Soul in a Dark World

I asked the Lord to help me type this post as if He was the one doing it- as if He were sitting right here at my computer. So, my goal is to type just what He laid on my heart. It is my goal to lift up Christ and encourage each of you.

Thank you for taking the time to read this because I know we all have busy lives and there is something different you could be doing. I do not take it lightly at all and I hope that by the end of this post, you are encouraged to go out into this world and shine brighter than ever before for the cause of Christ.

More than a President, a Senator, a Governor, you name it (we’ve all heard about the need of these people recently)– more than any of those people or things, this world needs Jesus. The same Jesus that we as Christians have in our very hearts and lives. The same Jesus that we talk to when we need His help or wisdom. The same Jesus that does the miraculous. The same Jesus that came to die for their faults and failures just as much as He did for ours. Okay, you get it, they need the one and only Jesus- the Son of God and the only one that is able to save their soul. 

More than anything, I believe people are searching for peace – the peace that passeth all understanding (Phil. 4:7). When we go to the store and see someone who looks so “messed up”, maybe they long to have the peace that we have because of Jesus. When we see a waiter that looks down and discouraged, maybe he longs to have the peace that we have because of Jesus. When we see someone begging for money on the side of the road, maybe they long to have the peace that we have because of Jesus. When we see a young girl trying to get a new boyfriend after one fails her, maybe she longs to have the peace that we have because of Jesus.

May we not be quick to judge or condemn those people, but instead, remember WHO we belong to and see the need of their soul (Ephesians 2:21-22). 

The things going on in the world are very sad. And, yes, they can be pretty scary too. But, now more than ever, this should encourage us to just share Jesus.

The world wants peace, and we know where to find it.

Through His peace, we can live in victory when our hearts are moved by the thought of eternity. We have troubles or afflictions, but our eyes aren’t the only two that can see, and our troubles aren’t where we should focus. These earthly things don’t go with us, but people’s souls will end up in eternity. If we share Jesus, then others have the opportunity to spend all of eternity in Heaven with Him too.  

2 Corinthians 4:16-18, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

I know there are so many ways to expand on this topic and so many things to say but I want to keep it simple, let’s share Jesus.

It can sometimes sound cliché to us but that’s just when we need to get on our knees and ask the Lord to revive us. We are a product of His grace and a testimony of His mercy – we are a work of God. We can’t compare someone in the world that is searching for yet empty of peace to us Christians- people who have personally experienced the love of Jesus Christ. We have so much to claim and boast in, in Christ and not ourselves. It’s all because of the wonderful Peace Giver. We are the recipients. However, when someone receives money into their banking account, it doesn’t just sit there. Instead, they go and use that for the expense of a need. Let’s go and take Christ in us and share Him for the expense of another soul’s need.

Let’s share the Peace that passes all understanding with the world so desperately looking for it.

Let’s share Jesus!

_{Post written by Morgan Rollins}