Speak Up

It is Thursday morning, the 7th July 2022, and I want to greet you in Jesus’s name! This is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. 
Psalms 40:9:

“I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness
In the great assembly;
Indeed, I do not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You Yourself know.
I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
From the great assembly.”

Acts 20:20:

“…how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,…”

There are no secret agents in God’s kingdom. We have an obligation to speak up and share the Good News to everyone who will hear us. Remember, no one deserves to hear the Gospel twice until the whole world has heard it once.

The Apostle, Paul, was fearless when it came to speaking up for the Master. He regularly got beaten, stoned and abused, just for telling people that Jesus Christ is Lord. The devil hates it when the name of Jesus is spoken. You might ask the question, “But why?”. That name brings salvation, peace, healing, forgiveness and most of all, love. It brings you and I new life. What kind of folk would we be if we were lying in a hospital bed in a ward full of people who were dying with a terminal disease. Then somebody arrived with a bottle of tablets and said, “Take one of these tablets and you will be healed.” You took the tablet and straight away your body was completely healed. You got up, got dressed, packed your suitcase and you looked around the ward at all the other patients who had the same disease as you, who were dying, and you said, “God bless you and keep well,” and you walked out? What kind of person would that be? That is exactly what happens when we have been saved from eternal damnation and we keep the Gospel to ourselves. This sick and dying world needs you and I to tell them about the Great Healer.

Have a wonderful day as you go out and you speak up for the Lord Jesus Christ. 
God bless you and goodbye.