Witnessing to others is in our job description. This daily devotional reviews how God wants us to relate to others to witness to them.
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- Society fosters the spread of evil. At a minimum, society allows the evil to take hold. At maximum, that hold is encouraged and even fostered (What Does “in the Days of Noah” Mean?).
- Wickedness an individual thing. We can’t blame our ungodliness on society. It is our own choice. If it starts at the heart, it must be the whole package (What Does “in the Days of Noah” Mean?).
- As we learn, we are more concerned with others, as opposed to the selfish society. Because of our relationship with God, we act differently with others than worldview people do (More Reasons Why We Should Not Set Affections on Earthly Things).
Witness
- Every person — living and dead — will bow before God and proclaim Him Sovereign God. Just because everyone is going to bow in end doesn’t mean God is going to go ahead and forgive everyone (The Law of the Future).
- When we experiment with our faith, we use it to witness to others. We cannot quantify and qualify our faith until we have a good handle on it. What better way to solidify our faith than to share it with others? (Attributes of God: Goodness).
- We have to make it about other people so that we build opportunities to witness to them (Transformed to Harmony).
- When we meet others where they are at and address what they are at the time, we build connections. These connections are built into relationships so that we can witness the love of God to others (Transformed to Harmony).
- We all have a story. It shows how God loves us and provides for us. We are to use them to witness to others (Transformed to being Servants of God).
- God calls us to live our lives as a witness — and to use our words to tell about Him. He wants us to use our conversation to tell others about Him, promote unity, and knit the family together (The Morality of Good Report; Diligently Forgetting Sin and Focusing on Godliness).
- Our refusing to make the right choices can lead others to believe God is weak. We are known as children of God by our good works. We have to be showing God’s character in our performance. That means our morals have to be at the forefront (Morality to Honor God; The Commandment of Morality).
- Witnessing is about building relationships. That takes time. We are to be ambassadors for the gospel by showing others to see their needs for it (Honoring God with Our Lives; The Expected Message).
What Went Wrong?
- Instead of looking to God, mankind was proud at their growth outside of the garden. They were proud of their increased number and the life that they had made. That is what eating and drinking could mean. They are absorbed in the life they have made that does not include God (What Does “in the Days of Noah” Mean?).
- Tolerating someone else’s actions does not mean we approve of the actions. It does not strengthen a relationship — or even start one in the first place. It leads to staying away from that person. That doesn’t lead to love (The Morality of Being Just).
Worldview
- God is expecting us to be different from worldview people (Setting Our Affections on Things of Earth).
- We have to make a conscious decision to stop buying into the worldview. Their goal to be good people may sound admirable. They are, however, trying to cut God out. That isn’t going to fly. They will be judged in the end and found wanting (Growing Our Souls).
- Jesus does not want us to have a worldly life. John told us about three components that we should avoid: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life (Setting Our Affections on Things of Earth).
- Paul talked about becoming all things to all men (I Cor. 19-23). We do need to do that to a point. However, we cannot change our beliefs — and commit sins — to fit in with others (The Morality of Good Report).
- Worldview people don’t always try to convince us to give up our relationship with God. They just try to limit our witnessing to them. They want us to bury it when we are around them (The Morality of Peace).
- A person who is attached to the worldview would have a hard time embracing the Godview. Faith calls us to turn away from worldview standards and submit to God’s laws and commandments. In order to believe, we have to have some knowledge. No, we won’t understand it all. If we did, it wouldn’t be faith driving our acceptance of God (The Morality of Diligence).
- Our conversion is the only evidence that God wants a relationship with us. Well, think about it. We have to do a 180 degree change — in our allegiance if not in our actions. That is a big change. On top of that, we do nothing to foster the change — except seek God. Only God has the power to cause the change (Diligence Is a Work in Progress).
- The challenge we face is that these changes are not always visible. Worse than that, they have been likened to the tide — they come and go. This retrograde movement — when we do see it — is why worldview people think disciples are hypocrites (Diligence Is a Work in Progress).
- We have to approach worldview people with love but realistically. We can’t approach them in ways that accentuates the divide, but we cannot tolerate sin (Improving Our Discipleship through Right and Wrong).
- Worldview people just see the ceremony of religion rather than the relationship for which God is actually striving. They see morality as a man-to-man exercise, not as man-to-God (Improving Our Discipleship through Glorifying God).
- If some people believe there is nothing in the Scriptures that pertain to them, they are wrong. The Bible tells us clearly what happens when we choose God and when we don’t (Attributes of God: Faithfulness).
- If God was the dictator worldview people want to paint Him, they would not have the free will to reject Him. They would be on their knees before Him now (The Rewards and Penalty of the Cross).
- Worldview people call disciples intolerant when we mention the fact that we can only receive salvation through believing in Jesus. We are restating God’s position, not ours (Belief in the Christ of the Cross is Essential).
- Whether worldview people think God’s salvation cannot save us or that it is not the only way, really matters not. Either way, they are rejecting God’s salvation. The result will be the same (Belief in the Christ of the Cross is Essential).
- We can’t choose to sin because the worldview people think that is what “love your neighbor” means (Transformed to Unity).
- Worldview people think they are merciful — sometimes even more so than disciples. They can have compassion for others. The problem is they are not performing the acts to glorify God or to expand His kingdom. That is why disciples are to be merciful. We are to show others that God loves us.
- Christian rights don’t begin where human passions end. We shouldn’t look to the church to make a pronouncement on what should be. It is God’s call, not man’s (The Law of the Future).
- Being of the world is not a good thing. Jesus said we would die in our sins if we were (Focusing Our Thoughts on God).
- Wisdom also gives us an intellectual life. But we have to remember that this isn’t wisdom according to the world. We can’t try to use knowledge to make it our god. We can’t look for an explanation that will replace God as Sovereign God (Where Is the Balance?).
- Worldview people think our witnessing to them is overly much. They think we should keep our relationship with God to ourselves. What they don’t want to acknowledge is that witnessing is part of our job description (How Does being Righteous Affect Balance?).
- In this life, it does seem like the children of God are treated in the same ways as worldview people. It brings up a good question. Why are we trying to be morally correct if it doesn’t make any difference? Two good reasons are the law doesn’t change based on our moral character and that means there is more after this (Facing Death).
- The cry these days is that everything has to be more equally distributed. That may have been how God originally planned it, but Satan nixed that. In other words, that will never happen on this earth (Facing Death).
- Disciples look at things differently than worldview people do. They see trials as judgment. We see it as a Father correcting His children. They see the wealth and prosperity they have earned through their own merits. We see gifts from our loving Heavenly Father. We see what we gain from trials, not what they cost us (Facing Death).
- Many worldview people think that goodness alone is sufficient. It isn’t. Goodness comes from God’s doctrines (Focusing Our Thoughts Off of the World).
- The worldview does limit the objects of our thoughts. It does try to keep the focus on us (Focusing Our Thoughts Off of the World).
- Worldview standards feed the chaos of the world because they are divisive. It is real easy to become arrogant and prideful when we buy into the worldview (Guarding Our Hearts from Prideful Thoughts).
Father God. We want to have Your character. When we do, other can see Jesus in us. We want to show them Your love for us. Amen.
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