A Resolution Worth Keeping

The phrase that saturates America this time of the year is ,”New Year’s Resolution”.  If you were to randomly ask people who cross your path, “What is your new year’s resolution?”, most of them would give you an answer.  Of the answers, 99% of the resolutions would more then likely consist of things that would promote their health, their personal life, or their careers. Very rarely will you come across someone who has made a resolution to promote the lives of others, let alone the life of Jesus Christ.

²⁸ The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village, telling everyone, ²⁹ “Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?” ³⁰ So the people came streaming from the village to see him… ³⁹ Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever did!” –John 4:28-29, 39 (NLT)

The woman had originally gone to the well to fill her water jar, but by the time her conversation with Jesus was over, she had left the jar behind, gone back to her village, and told everyone about Him.

⁴⁰ When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days, ⁴¹ long enough for many more to hear his message and believe. ⁴² Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.” John 4:40-42 (NLT)

An entire community came to know Jesus Christ because of the testimony of one person. If she had not testified of the Lord, He and His disciples would have continued on their journey to Galilee, and no one would have known any different. Such a story causes me to wonder, “How many people have missed an opportunity to meet Jesus, simply because someone failed to open their mouth”?

May 2010 be the year that we set our agenda’s aside, get enthused about Jesus, open our mouth’s, and lead our communities to Him. That is a resolution worth keeping!