21 MAY 23 Sunday: A Closer Walk Devotional
“Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for Israel. Whenever you receive a message from me, warn people immediately. If you warn them and they refuse to repent and keep on sinning, they will die in their sins. But you will have saved yourself because you obeyed me.” Ezekiel 3:17, 19
If you drive down main streets in major cities, you might see a person holding a sign with a warning. Hollywood makes fun of these people in television programs and movies. Their signs say, ‘The end is near’ or ‘Jesus is returning, repent!’. I just saw the last one yesterday as we headed to the train station. On one hand, I look at it and say, ‘Amen, good job’. On the other hand, it says, ‘There is a more efficient and effective way’.
Either way, the Lord is calling us to be Watchmen to some level. We don’t have to wait for some extra-biblical message that God will speak in our ears. He has given us the complete and perfect message from the Bible, called the gospel message. It is powerful to convert the soul. Someone holding a sign of woe to the city, speaking to a friend or stranger about Jesus, and urging repentance is good work. The Holy Spirit can and does use that to convict sinners and bring them to faith.
Take a look around you today when you head out to the store, go to school, or work. If you saw a person walking in front of a car, what would you do? Take a video? Honk your horn? Yell at the top of your lungs? Grab them? Do nothing? For Christians, it has been mandated and commanded that we rescue the perishing and dying. We do that by warning, exposing sin, speaking the truth, and sharing the gospel. If they don’t respond, it is on them. We must be faithful Watchmen until the end.
Are you on a search and rescue mission? If not, what are you doing?
Reading Plan: Psalm 66, 67; Ezek. 3:16-27; Eph. 2:1-10; Matt. 10:24-33, 40-42
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