My little addition to Our Daily Bread (8/19/11):
What was from the beginning,
what we have heard,
what we have seen with our eyes,
what we have observed,
and have touched with our hands,
concerning the Word of life—
(1 John 1:1 HCSB)
Perhaps we haven’t been given all the same insights as the Apostles who physically walked by Jesus’ side as He taught, but we really are not asked to do anything different as we spread the Gospel: tell our experience of God at work in our lives – the sights, sounds, observations, feelings. That’s why the “Great Comission” calls us to be “witnesses” who testify to what they know. Maybe the promise of “supernatural recall” that Dennis Fisher reminded us from John 14 was especially for the Apostles to record the Word for us, but I trust His promise in Luke 12:12 still applies to us today: “For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said." (HCSB) Granted, “the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart” (Matt 12:34), so we should be diligent to make sure the storehouse is full of the Truth for the Spirit to draw out in those occasions. Just as Randy Kilgore shared in the July 22nd ODB that the former ambassador told him: “By the way, the best part of your argument isn’t what you think Jesus can do for me. It’s what He’s done for you.”
Andy Jentes
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