Kingdom Revelator Australia – Issue 88
In his apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Nuntiandi, released on the 8th December 1975 Pope St John Paul VI said that the Church exists to evangelize. For a Christian,evangelisation should never be an option but a way of life. When the Lord said, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation” (Mark 16:15), His followers obeyed and did just that -proclaimed the Good News to the whole world. For us believers, Jesus Christ is not just an historical figure but an ever loving, almighty and living God, and when we encounter this truth, we want the whole world to know about it.
If God in His infinite mercy has chosen us to spread the Gospel, its not because of our merits but simply because He chose to use us.“ It is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). It is God who shapes and uses the empty vessels that we are to pour out is blessing to the lost sheep of His fold. We should make ourselves available to be used by Him as He wills and then we will see how wonderfully the Lord will use us for His kingdom. For it is only in giving up everything that we consider precious for the sake of Gospel, can we expect a greater reward in Heaven. “More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the
loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ” (Philippians 3:8).