‘If
you will return, O Israel,… then the nations will be blessed…’
(Jeremiah 4:1-2). Help us, Lord, not only to seek blessing for
ourselves. Teach us to pray that others will be blessed also.
Your blessing is not to be kept to ourselves. It is to be shared. We are
not to be small-minded people – ‘What will I get out of it?’. Help us
to remember what Jesus said to His first disciples, ‘Go and make
disciples of all nations’. This is still Your Word to us today. May we
never rest content with being an inward-looking Church. Christ has given
us a worldwide mission: ‘You will be My witnesses… to the ends of the
earth’. We are not left to face this great task on our own. Christ says,
‘I am with you always’. We thank You, Lord, that we do not take up this
great challenge in our own strength. Christ says to us, ‘You will
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you’ (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts
1:8).
By Your grace, Lord, You call us to be Your soldiers and servants. Help us not to be "fearful and fainthearted" (Deuteronomy 19:19). Help us to be "good soldiers of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3). When we hear your challenging question: "Who is on the Lord's side?", may we give our committed answer: "By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine, we are on the Lord's side; Saviour, we are Thine."
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