We Have Found the Messiah!
A few weeks ago I started doing a Bible study on the book of
Hebrews with several other women at church.
Our memory verse last week was Hebrews 4:12, “For the word of God is
living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as
the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge
the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
This is a verse that I’ve known for some time, but jumps up again every
time I read a familiar passage and understand something I’d never noticed
before. This morning, for example, I was
spending some time in John 1:35-51. Now,
I’ve never kept track, but I would be willing to bet that John is probably one
of the books of the Bible I’ve read most.
Until this morning, though, I’d never really paid much attention to
Andrew in this passage. He was kind of
awesome. As soon as John the Baptist
said, “There goes the Messiah,” Andrew was all in.
The Bible says, “Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the
two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and
tell him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.”
We often hear about Peter’s and what a champion he was in the early
church. But I think his brother deserves
some of the credit here. It was Andrew
who went to find Peter and told him about Jesus in the first place. I want the kind of faith had in trusting
Jesus at His word and the boldness He had in telling others the Good News right
from the start.
This is perhaps the aspect I am most excited about with my new job with FCA: pouring into the next generation of believers and helping them to develop their leadership potential to share Jesus with others. So what about you? Who
do you notice in your own life who either isn’t a believer or is young in their
faith but has amazing potential for the Kingdom of God? Go share Jesus with them! Encourage them! You never know if they might be a Simon Peter
for their own generation!
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