TALK ABOUT HIM

Hi !

Let’s make the year 2016, the year we TALK, TELL, SPEAK, SHARE, and DISCUSS!  I am so convinced and convicted that we all need to be sharing our story – our personal journey with Jesus.  Others need to know what happens between us and Jesus during the hard times, the good times, the confusing times and yes, the times of doubt and the just run-of-the-mill ordinary times.  We must share, as naturally as we breathe, our on-going HISTORY – His Story in our lives.

We have two young friends from Virginia, Scott and Ellen Park. Since September of 2015, Scott has been critically ill and in intensive care at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. Why am I sharing this with you?  I’m sharing this because Ellen through her personal witness at Johns Hopkins and through the lives she is touching through Facebook continues to share her journey with Jesus during what she has entitled her “Divine Chaos”.  Ellen has encouraged and inspired me; her honest journaling has brought me closer to Jesus. I want to follow in her steps.

We can and must tell our stories.  We must honestly share our daily journey with Jesus.  We have so much to share – we have such a great and powerful Lord.  In my walk I recognize how patient and merciful Jesus is with me and this I know: others need that in their lives. I am convinced that people are not looking for “perfect” Christians; instead they are looking for honest, vulnerable, “real” Christians.

Social media is “the thing” in our culture today.  We are social media…the lives we live; the words we share… that is what communicates to those around us.  We are living advertisements for our Lord Jesus.  What I want to ask myself and suggest you ask the same, “Is my walking, talking and living communicating, follow me to Jesus?

Jesus taught this principle of sharing our personal Jesus journey in his parables of salt and light.  Matthew 5:16 (ESV) In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

And I love the practicality of this paraphrase…Matthew 5:16 (MSG)  Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.

A light is to be visible and obvious, not secret or hidden.  Don’t keep your journey with Jesus to yourself… we have no idea how He might use our stories, our lights, our lives to draw someone to Himself.

Ephesians 3:20 (NLT) Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

Joyfully,

Yvonne