Sarah is changing the world.
All her work began with a call of Christ -
- And a few bags of lovingly homemade chocolate chip cookies.
In the book of Acts Peter and John went to the temple to pray. There, sitting at the gates of the temple was a lame beggar seeking alms. Peter didn’t walk past him. He didn’t avert his gaze. Rather, Peter stopped and fixed his eyes on the man. Then he quoted one of the most familiar lines in the New Testament: “Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up, and walk.”
And the beggar was lame no longer.
You see, Peter was a poor, uneducated, fisherman turned Jesus follower. Like many of us, he had nothing special or significant to give that would help someone in such desperate need.
But this is the part of the story that should warm and inspire and motivate each of our souls; this is the part of the story that should tear down all our defenses and belittle our excuses and challenge us to do what Peter did:
He gave what He had.
He gave Jesus.
For every believer, we have the same.
We don’t have to be rich. We don’t have to be significant. We don’t have to offer extraordinary talents and abilities. We simply have to have Jesus. And if Jesus is who we say He is, if Jesus is Life, and Love, and Joy, and everything Good, then giving Jesus is enough to fulfill the greatest needs and touch the most needy of hearts.
For every believer, we can change the world if all we give is the most basic of what we have:
Jesus.
And then, the lame and wounded are healed. The street kids are redeemed. The lost are saved. The prisoners are set free.
So, when will you say, “But such as I have, give I thee…"?
written by Christina N Dickson
Director of Revolutionary Media
www.therevmediaproject.com
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