Be Active in Sharing your Faith

Articles, Christian Living | Our Masters Voice | August 19, 2009 at 7:27 am

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I pray that you may be ACTIVE IN SHARING FAITH, so that you will have a FULL UNDERSTANDING OF EVERY GOOD THING we have in Christ – Philemon 1:6

In 1990, when I completed my class X, I had four months holidays before I could join Class XI. Being a young boy, sitting at home all the time and playing was not my mother’s favorite. So, by force she made me join in typewriting class. The class was from 6am to 7am everyday, being in holiday getting up early like school days was a tough decision for me, and over this, the first session at the typewriting institute was full of theory and they didn’t allow me to touch the typewriting machine. After a week’s time, they asked me to type 2 full A4 sheet just the letters “asdfgf” and “;lkjhj” for the entire week. I found very boring and useless, I was asked to do this for a week. But somehow, I managed to go through this and even wrote my lower grade typewriting exam and passed out in first class typing with a speed of 30 words per minute.

Today, for the obedience and perseverance I had in completing those 6 months typewriting class has enabled me now to use computer at a faster pace and type with ease. I now have a full understanding of why my mother pushed me that day in 1990 to that typewriting class and how God has planned this to be one of the very useful skills essential for me.

In the same way, the word of God says in Philemon, that to have a FULL understanding of every good thing we have in Christ; we ought to be ACTIVE in sharing FAITH. Philemon 1:6, has two sections in it; one prompting us to an action and the second the benefit of that action.

Sharing is Multifaceted in Christ Jesus

Let us explore the one prompting us to action is “Be active in sharing your faith”. I believe sharing your faith doesn’t just mean sharing our testimony of how God saved us or how God is so faithful to us in difficult circumstances. But I understand it further more deep; sharing your faith means, every action that you do in your life because of the faith you have in Christ Jesus. Sharing of love, sharing of money and resources, sharing mercies we have received from Christ, sharing the joy, sharing hope and so on. The greater meaning that God has in sharing your faith means that sharing not just by words but by deeds. God’s word says faith without deed is dead. So we are called to share in action rather than mere words.

We are made in the image and likeness of God; and God created the earth to share His joy with the human beings. He didn’t create it for himself, but for us to enjoy and be happy. This character of God reveals that we too ought to reflect that character of sharing in our life.

When something is shared with someone, spiritual blessings are activated in the giver and the receiver’s lives. For instance, let us imagine like this, person A shares his food with person B who is hungry, what are the unseen blessings that are activated here in persons A and B. Person B who was fed, is freed from his hunger, he respects person A for his act of love, he praises God for meeting him at the point of need and there is a scope for his trust in God to increase. Person A, who fed the hungry, has a greater satisfaction in his soul to have served the needy, praises God for enabling him to feed another person, earns a relationship of another child of God and his fame is spread amidst the people.

This is what God means by sharing of faith. This type of sharing of faith unfolds the heavenly blessings upon lives. The more we share the more we do well, the more we are activated based on the faith we have in Christ, God’s awesome blessings are unfolded in our lives and his name is glorified.

But how do we need to SHARE?

We need to SHARE
           S – Self-lessly
In       H – Humility
By      A – Acknowledging God
           R – Restlessly
And E – Earnestly

When we share our faith in action, God expects us that we do that not seeking any selfish benefits but with humbleness, acknowledging God in every action and doing it restless and with earnest.

When we keep on sharing such a faith, we will have a FULL UNDERSTANDING of every GOOD THING that we have in Christ. We do not know sometimes, why God asks us to do certain things, but only way to get answer to such questions is to just be obedient and persevere to do what God calls us to do, so that we may have the full understanding of every good thing in Him.

May God bless you to be active in sharing your faith, not by words but by deed

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