You have been chosen for this

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “What the world needs now”

Our Bible verse for today: “You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask in my Father’s name, he will give you.” John 15:16-17 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “You have been chosen for this”

This morning, I want to briefly return us to two metaphors that have been used in previous devotionals in this series and which serve to illustrate how we should be helping to spread the love of Jesus in our world. The first appeared on April 3^rd and was about the snow machine (Cover them in God’s Love). The second was on April 7^th and it was the branches and the vine illustration (This is how you love them on purpose). If you don’t remember those illustrations, please go back and reread them because they each teach an important lesson about how we, the followers of Jesus, are His chosen instruments for spreading His love in our world today.

As a follower of Christ, you have been chosen and commanded to be a conduit for His love to flow through. That has been His point in this entire teaching session so far in John chapter fifteen, and it is the point that He made very directly in verse 16. He chose you and He appointed you to produce His fruit and to spread His love. This is God’s plan for the human-race – the followers of Christ dispensing the love of Christ all around the world.

All over the world there are multiple millions of Christians strategically placed by the Holy Spirit to blanket the world with the love of Jesus (the snowmaking illustration). All over the world there are many millions of Christians strategically placed by the Holy Spirit to offer people the opportunity to taste the sweet love of Jesus (the branches and vine illustration).

You have been chosen for this. You have been strategically placed by the Holy Spirit to be exactly where you are in the world, at this very moment in time, to be the conduit through which the love of Jesus flows to your little part of the world. The question for each of us then is, “Who should be experiencing the love of Jesus today because they were around me?”

Will you do this? Will you make a decision and take an action to share the love of Jesus with someone today? If you will, then Jesus has something very special He wants to give you, and we will consider what that special thing is tomorrow.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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