You are witnesses of these things
The texts for Sunday, April 22, 2012: Acts 3:12–19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3:1–7; Luke 24:36b–48
… Witnesses.
That’s an interesting designation.
a witness sees something, experiences something.
It’s kind of a passive thing, being a witness.
Something happens and you simply observe it. And that makes you a witness
Yet, we don’t tend to leave it like that.
We tend to think of one being a witness as someone who
is compelled to speak about the witnessing
and more than compelled to speak
to testify
to make claims
to have had the experience of simply observing change one’s life.
Witnesses.
The Greek word for witness is the same root word from which we get martyr.
One whose life bears witness
One whose life is changed by witnessing
and whose life is given to witnessing.
You are witnesses…
It’s as much a promise—of transformation that we have simply in seeing God at work
as it is an obligation
a call, a command,
a need placed on our hearts
first of all, to just simply notice what is happening
and then
to tell SOMEBODY what we’ve seen
what has changed us
what has made us new.
witnesses.
You are witnesses…
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Featured image “Cloud of Witnesses” from the blog: leave it lay where Jesus flang it
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