Be A Contagious Christian

Be a Contagious Christian “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 Have you ever thought about what the disciples must have thought when Jesus spoke the message above to them? It must have seemed like an impossible request when they looked at their past lives as a tax collector, a fisher, etc. and Jesus was now telling them to go spread the Gospel throughout all the world. There are times in our lives when we are told to do things on our own, where we have major concerns. Our first day at school, our first bike ride without training wheels or even taking our first step by ourselves. We continually are asked to do things on our own through adolescence and even into adulthood, until we begin a family of our own. Each time we are asked to step out by ourselves we are unsure, but then become excited to find out that we actually could do it all by ourselves. The disciples were, I am sure, questioning whether they could do this by themselves, and had doubts, fears and questions. But Jesus knew what lay ahead of them, and the experiences they would encounter in their lives to spread the gospel throughout the world. It is not easy to step out in faith when we don’t know what may lie ahead of us, but this is what we must do, in our walk with God. Just as the disciples were told to do, to step out and spread the word of God to the world, we are also to step out and spread the word of God to our friends, our neighbors and in our workplaces. We need to be a contagious Christian wherever we are and wherever we go. We are also part of the Great Commission that Jesus gave to the disciples, and need to go out in faith as they did and spread the Word of Jesus wherever we go. My Daily Devotional Volume III April 24 Robert William Brock, Jr.