Are You On Fire For Jesus or Just A Charred Ember – Sunday Thought For The Day

Friday evening before our church worship service began, I was introduced to two young men.  They were friends from the same neighborhood attending the same school together.  They were in the same grade, taking the same classes.

These young men were filled with the Holy Spirit.  The one young man had accepted the Lord approximately three weeks ago, and his friend had accepted the Lord one week ago.  I tell you, these two young men were on fire for the Lord.

Their teachers and their parents thought they were on drugs; but as the young man who had been saved just one week said: “We’re not doing drugs, we’re high on Jesus.”  They told me that their parents and teachers were confused by their behavior.  They were told that something about them had changed, that they were behaving differently.  Their friends were watching them and starting to ask them questions about being saved.  All of this in less than one full month.

I asked them what they had read in their Bibles that day.  The one young man had read Psalms that morning and the other had read the first chapter of John.  But, it gets better.  My church-brother who had led them to the Lord was only a short couple years ago, a hardcore Muslim.  Today he is a born again child of God leading others to Christ.

We are barely two weeks into the New Year, (11 days to be exact).  Should the Lord tarry, nothing dissuades me from believing these two young men are going to be responsible for leading teachers and classmates to salvation.  Who have you told about Jesus in this new year?

READ:

Luke 8:39-40 (KJV)

39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee, And he went his way and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus had returned, the people gladly received him; for they were all waiting for him