Title: Eternal Homework (Mark 1:35-39)
Content If there is an eternal task that burdens Christians the most, it is probably 'prayer' and 'evangelism'.
The reason prayer and evangelism become our homework is because God has commanded us to do it through the Bible.
Can anyone tell me that I have completed this homework perfectly?
Prayer and evangelism are endless things.
But we make excuses without doing it or trying to do well. It's like an elementary school student who didn't do his homework when the school teacher checks his homework and gives excuses.
According to today's text, "Jesus got up before dawn and went out to a secluded place and prayed there" (verse 35) and "He said to them, "Let's go to other nearby villages, and there we will also preach, for this I have come." So he went through all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues..." (verses 38-39).
Jesus Himself went to a secluded place at dawn to pray, and evangelized throughout Galilee.
We cannot give any reason or excuse for prayer and evangelism.
Is morning prayer a special tradition unique to Korean churches? no.
Churches in America or Europe may not have prayed at dawn, but our Lord certainly prayed before dawn.
You want to do evangelism, but you don't have time? Perhaps my life and yours are no busier than the life of our Lord.
Don't you need to know something to evangelize? Andrew, James, and Simon Peter preached from the moment they first met Jesus.
Year 2011!
I hope that you and I will work even harder to wake up in the morning.
I hope that you and I will always share Jesus Christ at work and in our neighbors.
There is a saying, “Thoughts lead to actions, and actions lead to habits.”
This word needs to be changed a little more practically.
'Thoughts must be turned into actions, and actions must become habits through repeated repetition.'
I hope that early morning prayer and evangelism will become our habit this year.
I hope that early morning prayer and evangelism will become our constitution.
When early morning prayer and evangelism become our habits and our constitution, we will be able to happily take on our eternal homework. Let's live our best life so that we can confidently submit our notes on the day of the homework test.