It’s time to make a decision to passionately follow Christ! It’s time to put our offensive team on the fields and to make some ground for our Lord and Saviour. We have taken stock of what God has done for us and  learn’t how to prepare our defenses against sin. Now we need to actively, with purpose, seek to extend God’s kingdom.

Isaiah 43 reminds us how precious we are to God (vs.4) and how he will be with us in every situation we find ourselves (vs.2). The passage goes on to say in verse 10 that we are God’s witnesses and servants who He has chosen, and that our task is to know Him and understand Him.

Think for a minute about why verse 10 is significant. God is asking us to witness for Him by believing in Him and understanding Him. If we as Christians focus on God and understanding Him, the side effects are so potent in our witness to others. We become people who are in tune with the one true God. We will become more discerning, more loving, more faithful, more humble, more honest and more like the people we need to be in this world.

In order to witness in this world it will take a commitment from us – a commitment to seek God above all else. To put all our resources into knowing him more.

In my personal experience I have found the following helpful in drawing near to God:

1. Daily time alone with God – find a place and time in the day when you can read God’s Word and pray without interuption;
2. Involve yourself in a Church – don’t just attend to gain, but rather choose to serve and love others with the gifts God has blessed you with;
3. Be bold – don’t be afraid to trust God! He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

My challenge to you is to trust in God, be corageous, and live each day with a love for Christ that will serve as the perfect witness to the world we live in. You will be amazed at what God can do through a willing, trusting and corageous heart.

Isaiah 43

1 But now, this is what the Lord says— 
he who created you, O Jacob, 
he who formed you, O Israel: 
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; 
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, 
I will be with you; 
and when you pass through the rivers, 
they will not sweep over you. 
When you walk through the fire, 
you will not be burned; 
the flames will not set you ablaze.
3 For I am the Lord, your God, 
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; 
I give Egypt for your ransom, 
Cush and Seba in your stead.
4 Since you are precious and honored in my sight, 
and because I love you, 
I will give men in exchange for you, 
and people in exchange for your life.
5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; 
I will bring your children from the east 
and gather you from the west.
6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ 
and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ 
Bring my sons from afar 
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
7 everyone who is called by my name, 
whom I created for my glory, 
whom I formed and made.”
8 Lead out those who have eyes but are blind, 
who have ears but are deaf.
9 All the nations gather together 
and the peoples assemble. 
Which of them foretold this 
and proclaimed to us the former things? 
Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, 
so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, 
“and my servant whom I have chosen, 
so that you may know and believe me 
and understand that I am he. 
Before me no god was formed, 
nor will there be one after me.
11 I, even I, am the Lord, 
and apart from me there is no savior.
12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— 
I, and not some foreign god among you. 
You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God.
13 Yes, and from ancient days I am he. 
No one can deliver out of my hand. 
When I act, who can reverse it?”

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