Jesus looked at him and loved him. Mark 10:21a
“We whisper ‘God’ or ‘Jesus’ or ‘Christ’ constantly as we glance at every person near us. We try to see double, as Christ does—we see the person as he is and the person Christ longs to make him. Remarkable things happen, until those in tune look around as though you spoke—especially children.
The atmosphere of a room changes when a few people keep whispering to Him about all the rest. Perhaps there is no finer ministry than just to be in meetings or crowds, whispering ‘Jesus’ and then helping people whenever you see an opportunity.
When Dr. Chalmers answers the telephone he whispers: ‘A child of God will now speak to me.’ We can do that when anybody speaks to us. If everybody in America would do the things just described above, we should have a ‘heaven below.’ This is not pious poetry. We have seen what happens.
Try it during all this week, until a strange power develops within you. As messages from England are broadcast in Long Island for all America, so we can become spiritual broadcasters for Christ. Every cell in our brain is an electric battery which He can use to intensify what He longs to say to people who are spiritually deaf to hear Him without our help.”
Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970) in Letters By A Modern Mystic (Feedbooks: 2009) letter entitled, “On A Train Or In A Crowd.”
Laubach is changing how I look at people, walk through crowds, and think about the footprint I make. Candidly, most of the time, I function like I am on a mission.
The mission, as I contemplate it looks more like the Levite or the priest in the Good Samaritan story and Laubach’s counsel shapes me into the Samaritan.
Our mission changes to seeing people and talking to them not as pawns to use to accomplish my purposes but people to love and point to God’s purposes.
The implications to generosity are limitless. God help us not miss opportunities today to become spiritual broadcasters for you.
Jenni and I are resting in Colorado wine country this weekend with dear friends. I am asking God to restore our strength for spiritual broadcasting wherever He leads us.