Bethany Baptist Church

Where Jesus Is LORD!

 

   

Afraid To Fail?

 

           Things haven’t changed much in 2,000 years.  Jesus observed in His

           day what a thoughtful Christian observes in ours.  “The harvest truly

           is great” (Lk. 10:2).

 

Stroll through a bookstore and you can see shelves of books on

“new age” and “spirituality.”  But what is called “new age” is

merely the age-old desire to make some sense out of life. 

Citizens of our age try to satisfy their thirst for significance by

drinking too much, eating too much, watching too much

television.  What they are longing for is Jesus Christ.

 

The great theologian Augustine took the pulse of his time and ours

when he wrote, “O Lord, You have made us for Yourself, and

our heart is restless until it finds its rest in You.”

 

The harvest has never been greater.  But Jesus noted, “The laborers

are few.”  Why?  How come there aren’t enough workers to gather

in the crop?  There are certainly enough professing Christians to

make a dent in the harvest, but we don’t seem to want to go.  Is

it a fear that we may fail?  Are we afraid that people will reject

us and our message?

 

Don’t let fear stop you.  Go out into the “fields” of your

neighborhood, your worksite, your school.  You can’t control

the response—but you can preach the message.

 

Go in the power the Lord will provide you,

Led by the Spirit each day;

You cannot fail on the mission He sends you—

Go then, no longer delay.—Peterson

 

If faith in Christ is worth having, it’s worth sharing.

 

 

LOVE,

 

Bro. Morris Stephens