[Biblemat] A) ONE PERSON

[J5827Sasser at wmconnect.com]

Brethren and Friends, Jim Sasser here.  A very good Wednesday
morning to each and everyone.  May God bless you and yours.
Here is an article that recently came my way:

ONE PERSON

     Oftentimes we don't think much about what we can do as
an individual.  We can also be convinced that talking about
the gospel to one person, encouraging, or comforting one 
person doesn't count for much.  That, however, isn't support-
ed by what we read in the Gospel accounts.  Even though
Jesus' ministry was limited to about 3 years, He was never
"too important" to deal with one person at a time.

     Certainly Jesus preached to multitudes in Judea, fed 5,000
people gathered by the Sea of Galilee, and ministered to the
crowds in Capernaum.  Yet, He never lost sight of the value of one soul!

     How encouraging it is to read of His conversation at night
with an individual named Nicodemus (Jno. 3) -- This was one
person yet he was an important person among the Jews.  We
read if His visit with one woman at the well of Samaria (Jno. 4) -- Many 
Samaritans believed because Jesus took time to
talk to one Samaritan woman and she in turn told the people
of her village about Him and they then came to hear Him them-
selves.  Then we have the case of Jesus taking time to talk to
a man of diminutive stature.  A small man by the name of Zaccheus, who had 
climbed up into a sycamore tree in order
to see Jesus as He passed by (Lk. 19).  How thrilled he must
have been when Jesus saw him in the tree and stopped to 
talk with him and invited him to come down that He was going
to visit with him in his home (19:5).

     If you are ever tempted to minimize or diminish the value
of what you can do as one person or what you can do by help-
ing one other person, remember these examples of Jesus.
The Bible says in (Lk. 15:10) that there is joy in the presence
of the angels of God in heaven over one sinner who repents!
--------- Shane Williams, in The Lilbourn Light, Vol. 7, No. 7,
Nov. 2006.


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