Our Daily Bread

You’re on vacation and evening is approaching. You spot a good motel and you pull in. The clerk tells you that a room is available, and she gives you a card to fill out. Without hesitation you write down your name, address, phone number, and license number. Depending on how you pay, you may also reveal your credit card number. You have given out a lot of vital information without thinking twice about it.

Discussing this in a sermon, a pastor observed that it’s so easy for us to hand over to people all kinds of vital information, yet it’s often difficult for us to tell them that we are believers in Jesus Christ. But the most vital thing about us that could possibly be shared is what Jesus has done for us. We are commissioned to tell the world about our Savior.

In John 9, the man healed of blindness testified clearly what had happened to him: “Though I was blind, now I see” (v.25). Jesus is the One who had done it for him. Similarly, the Light of the world has removed our spiritual blindness through faith. He is our Savior. Now we can see.

We give out a lot of vital information about ourselves. Let’s not be afraid to tell others the most important thing about us: We are believers in Jesus Christ!