Your Daily Devotional for January 14, 2008

 

January 14,  2008

 

 

Consider His Witness

Revival Readings for the New Year

by Dr. Paul Chappell

 

 

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."

John 3:7

 

 

For over thirty years, the Salvation Army and General William Booth were subjected to terrible persecution. But Booth would live to see the day that his organization would receive widespread recognition. In 1904, he was invited to Buckingham Palace, where King Edward IV honored him.

 

The difficulties that Booth had endured through the years must have seemed to grow small as he heard the words of the king: "You are doing a good work—a great work, General Booth." When the king asked Booth to write in his autograph album, the seventy-five year old man bent forward and wrote: "Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold; my ambition is the souls of men."

 

Jesus Christ, the greatest witness to walk this earth, has given a model for the believer to follow. Jesus was called a friend of publicans and sinners (Luke 7:34). He summed up His purpose in coming to earth in Luke 19:10: "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Jesus Christ was filled with compassion for the souls of men, and He remained steadfast in His witness.

 

Though Christ came to preach the Gospel, He also came that there might be a Gospel to preach. Some indications of revival are the conversions of souls, and the stirring of the believer's heart toward repentance and surrender to God. Just as Christ did, take time to see those with whom you come in contact today not simply as people, but as souls, heading toward a final judgment and an eternal destination.

 

 

Daily Bible Reading

Genesis 33-35 • Matthew 10:1-20

 

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