To be fully HUMAN — A Daily Reflection

Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
       and sinners will turn back to you.

You’ve just had a long conference with your boss in which he lauds your praises, telling you what a good job you’ve been doing and how much he appreciates you.  He not only gives you a raise, he promotes you to that job you’ve wanted for a long, long time.  As soon as the meeting is over, what is the first thing you do?  Tell somebody!

You have a problem with your taxes.  For weeks you’ve been preparing for that nerve-jangling audit with the IRS.  You’ve been fully aware that if things didn’t go your way, you could be in deep trouble.  You could lose everything.  The audit is a long and grueling affair, but you come out of it on top!  The IRS finds in your favor!  You won!  What’s the first thing you want to do?  Tell somebody!

Your child, who has a history of problems with math, comes home with an "A" on his report card in that very subject.  What’s the first thing you want to do?  Tell somebody!

You have a near miss on the highway, coming very close to having a serious and possibly life-threatening accident.  But you come away unscathed. What’s the first thing you want to do?  Tell somebody!

You’ve been out of work for months.  Finally, you find a job… a good one!  What’s the first thing you want to do?  Tell somebody!

Now look at your relationship with Jesus.  Every day, He gives you victories.  Every day, He shows you how to change your life so that it more closely resembles the one He wants you to have.  Every day, He reveals to you more and more how His ways are better than yours.  Every day, He gives you the opportunity to learn more and more about His ways.  Every day, He lets you see the joys that a relationship with Him can bring.  What’s the first thing you want to do?  Keep your mouth shut.  After all, if you start talking about God all the time… if you start attributing every problem you see around you to things spiritual… if you start telling others about how Jesus has changed your life… how He has helped you see that His ways are better… well, everyone will think you’re some kind of Jesus freak!  Right?

Think about this… there is a never-ending list of pseudo-religious, “spiritual,” off-the-wall “movements” growing out there.  And the proponents of all these totally anti-God organizations or movements or ways of thinking will not hesitate one second to tell you how wonderful this thing they’ve found is, and they will do everything in their power to “convert” you to their way of thinking.  Just watch TV for a few evenings… listen to the kinds of thoughts that are being woven into the scripts of virtually every television program … things like reincarnation… New Age mumbo-jumbo… “white” witchcraft… “The Secret” and “A New Earth” (both totally anti-God and promoted to the hilt by Oprah)… and a whole long list of other things that would take up pages here – all are being not only included in television and movie scripts, but lauded as THE way to think!  A few nights ago, I actually heard one TV character – in all seriousness – proclaim that “perhaps the norm when we were crawling out of the muck was that we all had BOTH sexes… perhaps being only one gender is a genetic defect.”  WHAT????  The point is, not only are these things being discussed in TV fiction and factual programs, but they are being SOLD to an undiscerning public by the bushel!  And note… not one proponent of any of these incredibly weird ways of thinking will hesitate one second to not only tell you about what he believes, but do his best to SELL you on what he believes so that you will believe it, too!

If you found the cure for cancer… if you found a bank that gives away money… if you found a sure-fire, guaranteed way of raising a teenager without going crazy… you’d tell somebody, wouldn’t you?  Proponents of every anti-God thought imaginable are on a constant campaign to convert everyone they meet to their way of thinking – ways that lead to nothing but destruction.  So why are you so hesitant to tell somebody about Jesus - the cure for everything and everyone, and the ONLY way to eternal life?  Think about it.