Day 37: Sharing Your Life Message

Everyone has a story to tell. Just Friday evening I heard someone suggest that getting someone to share their story was a great way to get them invested in what you're doing. If you honestly care about someone's story, you can find out how to best reach them with the Good News. I'm looking to do a study one this book in a small men's group. Guys are normally reserved about deep personal stuff, but will readily tell you where they are from, what teams they root for etc. It's in those non personal details that I will be looking for clues on how to best reach them and get them to all open up.

I'll have to share my message with them, that's for sure. I don't want to give it all away, but I've covered a good deal of it here. My story about how I came to know Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, is a big deal to me. And I'm hoping that it helps others relate and be willing to share. I'm a 'satisfied customer' of the Gospel, not a salesman as the author would say. Through my message, others can maybe see in their own life where Jesus has come in and shown up in big, and not so big ways.

I've given my testimony, I've also share small life lessons here. These are things that each of us learn through trial and error. But like the author says, there are too many things to learn and we're slow learners to try every one. If you can trust me to be honest with you about my failures, then you can take something away from my failures and my successes. These things worked for me, these things hurt. I want you to not make the same mistakes I did. But also, I want to know what worked and didn't work for you, so that I can benefit from your life lessons.

I've got a few passions. Unfortunately, not all of them are Godly. I am pretty sure that God doesn't want me to reach other people by staying on the PS3 playing Modern Warfare all day. But even that did help bring me into a stronger relationship with my half-brother. So again, God will use a vice for His victory. But I think my real Godly passion for writing and for drama will help me reach more people for Him.

The more people I can reach, the more I can tell the Good News to. The Good News that I've been talking about is that Christ died for all mankind God wants all His children returned to Him. If what Jesus suffered was enough for all men, than it wasn't enough for any man. So I'm not special, God didn't come down to earth to die for me and pay the price for my sins. The Good News is that He died for US to pay for OUR SINS!!! In Christ we all can find redemption and salvation!

Our Bible verse comes from the Book of First Peter.

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect
1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)

As I reflect on my personal story, who does God want me to share it with? I've talked before about sharing it with youth who come from broken homes, I've also been reaching out to a believer going through a difficult custody battle and hopefully making a difference there too.

Remember: God wants to say something to the world through me.