Sign Me Up – I’ll Campaign for Him
We’re getting closer to the mid-term elections. In fact, on Monday, I’ll once again serve as an election clerk during “early voting” as well as on Election Day. I am honored to do so, and besides, I thoroughly enjoy doing it. Seeing eager people come in and exercise their right to vote.
The candidates on the ballot will have been vetted and all those who had hoped to make the cut, will now be overlooked.
Overlooked means “being unnoticed”. I know that there is someone reading this blog that feels overlooked today. Maybe it is because you aren’t outgoing and prefer it that way. Maybe you were overlooked on a job promotion or overlooked at school because you were the quiet, less-commanding-attention-one.
I am campaigning – well, not for a specific candidate or proposed proposition. I’m campaigning for Jesus. While I love everything about Him, I especially appreciate that He doesn’t overlook anyone. He went out of His way to bring hope to the rejected and outcast. It didn’t matter what others thought. He paid attention to everyone.
At Mom’s Celebration of Life service on Friday, you would have thought we were campaigning. And, we were. We were campaigning for THE ONE Who was Mom’s constant companion and Karen’s (sis) sustainer (faithful in giving her the strength, courage, and joy she needed to carry out a caregiver’s many challenges). Each one who spoke, gave credit to Who credit was due for a dear saint to live to be two-weeks shy of being a centenarian.
Matthew 4:24 says “….and His fame went out”. The cause of Jesus’ fame is seen in verse 23: “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness.” When He healed a man of leprosy in Luke 5, “the report about Him went abroad” and as a result more people came to hear Jesus’ message and be healed by Him!
Jesus’ fame took Him from obscurity to rock star status. It took Him from being an undiscovered talent to being the most sought after Man in the entire Holy Land, all because people were spreading the news about what He had done for them.“
And, look at us todayI His followers. It is those of us who continue to make Him famous in our daily communications. I like to think that He cheers us on when we talk about Him, represent Him and spread His Good News on social media, live streaming and broadcasting His messages each day!
So here I am today – everyday – being a reporter of His powerful work in me. He made me a survivor and a thriver, along with all those in the Bible that He didn’t overlook. He didn’t overlook me. I MUST put the spotlight on Him. Has God done anything for you in the past week? Have you told anyone about what He’s done?
The first place where you and I can start is right where we are. When we read the Great Commission in the gospels, we are told to make Jesus famous…to all nations and to the entire world (Acts 1:8). The starting place for the disciples was Jerusalem, the very place where they lived, and for you and I, the place where we live.
The places we live, learn, work, play, shop. We can make Jesus famous by serving/loving the people around us. We can make Jesus famous through prayer. We can make Jesus famous by relying on the Holy Spirit. And we can make Jesus famous by speaking of His greatness.
The world has its eyes on you and me. Whe are those Christians who live and speak out about His love. Let’s make Jesus famous by consistently shining a spotlight on Him through the lives we live and the people we love.