“And Jesus…saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom, and He said unto him, Follow me. and he arose and followed Him.”
Matthew’s response to Jesus’ call is a good example of what ours should be. What Jesus wanted with Matthew was what He wants with us. What was/is that? Jesus wants us as his witnesses. Jesus did not call Matthew away from the “receipt of custom” to continue what he had always done. He wanted him to join the other disciples as witnesses to their generation. Jesus still wants us to be witnesses to the world. The need for Jesus is as great now as it was then, and the world depends on us telling them about Jesus. We are witnesses by the way we live, by how we treat people as well as our verbal witness to them. If we don’t “walk the walk” we can’t “talk the talk.” Jesus wants you to be His witness to your generation. Jesus wants us to serve as His church. We, together, are the church of Jesus Christ in this world. Jesus wants us to serve together in union with Him and with our fellow Christians. The work of the church of Jesus Christ has made a difference in our world. Think of what the world would be like if Christ’s church did not exist. I know that the world looks negatively at the churches witness today, but that does not mean that its witness is not as necessary as it was in Matthew’s day. We need to be careful to remember that we represent Jesus Christ to this world. Sometimes our witness as Christ’s church is not as effective today as it could be, but it still makes a difference in the world. He wants us to be His soldiers in the world. We are His army and we are at war. What Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:12 is still true today: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” God’s people have always been at war with the devil, and it will continue until God brings the war to an end. Paul also mentioned our being soldiers in 2 Timothy 2:3-4: “Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4. No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.” Jesus wants you to be His witness as part of His church and to be a good soldier of the cross. Bro. Joe
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