“But He answered and said to them, ‘I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.’” (Luke 19:40, NKJV)
People often ask me, “How do you evangelize?” My thought is how do you not?
Actually, I didn’t know that talking about Jesus was called evangelism. For me it is Jesus Himself telling about all that He is and what He did; it is not something that is thought out or a plan. It is God’s will for all not to perish, but to come to salvation and eternal life through His Son. It is the Spirit of God who reveals Jesus to a lost soul.
If one is in love, he or she talks about that person all the time. So, if one is in love with Jesus, that is all that one can talk about. Even now as I write, the Lover of my soul, Yeshua, the Messiah, fills my very existence with Himself.
I was instructed by Jewish and Gentile believers in Israel not to speak of Jesus, because the Jews might cause a problem. I was instructed as to how I should pray silently in public because of what the Jews may think. I was to neither bow my head nor place my hands together. I was told what I could do and what I could not do regarding talking about Yeshua.
Not telling about Jesus causes me to cry out His name loudly! And it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks. Not telling about the only way to keep from going to Hell makes me stand on the mountains of lost souls and tell them the way out—JESUS! I can’t imagine the rocks around me crying about Him if I don’t!
I looked at one of the Jewish believers right in the eyes and said, “Look, I am in love. Don’t wake me up.” He smiled widely, and the love of God spread through his face and mine. There was silence. What more can one say when the power of God’s love covenant for His people is shed abroad in our hearts because of His Son? Thereafter, I was taken to meet the main bible leader and teacher in Israel.
I can’t imagine looking into the eyes of a lost soul, knowing he or she will perish without the Messiah, if I don’t tell that one about salvation in the Son of God who died for them. How will I explain it to my Savior, Yeshua, when I see Him face to face and He asks me, “Why didn’t you tell them?”
“Abba, Father, help us in this new year to tell about salvation in Your Son. And may You save souls, Messiah!”