We live in a world of participants and spectators. Over 4 million people watched 9 Yankees take the field this baseball season. Millions more watch football from the stands and the comfort of their family rooms. As a nation we watch as a handful of our young people face the front lines of battle. Through the many channels of media, including hundreds of television options, multitudes of newspapers and magazines, we watch the events of the world unfold and we are entertained. Who among us would say that his major life goal was to watch life as others lived it? Yet it seems that many of us prefer to be spectators more than participants. I think we are challenged to participate, especially in the quest to extend the hope of heaven and the reality of a risen savior to the present generation. The author of life has written us into the script with an active role, that the angels might watch and wonder.
Luke 15:10 "Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
1 Peter 1:12 To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.
blessings,
Rob Smith
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