BBD 06.15.21 What Our World Really Needs (Classic)
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Classic from 2005
The Burning Bush Devotional
15 June 2021
What Our Country and the World Really Needs
And as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal
life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God
did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he
who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God.” - John 3:14-18.
In 1874,
one of the first Baptist missionaries to minister to the Plains Indians,
arrived at what is now Anadarko, Oklahoma. On that day when the missionaries'
first message was preached (John 3:16 was the text.), some of those present still had human scalps hanging
from their belts. Over the course of years, many of those Indians received
Christ as their Savior.
Bruce
Catton, a great Civil War historian and scholar,
once gave a speech entitled “What 1861 Has
to Say to 1961.” The point was that
the problem, which was the nature of people, was the same in 1861 as it was in
1961. It is the same today. We still have crime, violence, substance abuse,
wars, starvation, and on and on; which arise from the same source as in the
past. Human nature has not changed. “All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).” Sin is not without consequence, and we continue to see the reaping
of its evil harvest.
The
solution is the same today as it was in 1874. The answer has been the same for
almost 2000 years. The answer is Jesus! The transforming,
resurrecting, earthquaking power of Jesus, is alive and well today in the
hearts of all believers. The same power, that transformed mighty American
Indian warriors into gentle servants of God in 1874, is still available today.
We must have the same courageous boldness of those early missionaries, who
risked their lives to tell the unlovable about the love of Jesus.
Have
you shared Jesus with your neighbor, your friend, your relative, or with
someone God brings across your path? How about your enemies, have you shared
Jesus with them, have you prayed for them, cried for their salvation?
Jesus
is the only hope and the only answer for the problems of this world.
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