Eyewitness

"You just had to be there!" You know you've said this at some point to your friends, and you could have been talking about any number of things - a concert or game you attended, a joke you heard but struggle to recount, a crazy situation that you found yourself in and wondered how you got there. Even through you tried as hard as you could to relay the experience to another person, words could not really begin to describe all the details that took place. There's just something different about being there and seeing it happen with your own eyes, about witnessing it for yourself.

Read 1 John 1:1-4; reread vs. 3.

1. What was John describing here in the first verse? Who is the Word of Life?
2. After reading verse 3, what have you found that John did with what he heard and saw?
3. What is the expectation that will happen once the message of God has been declared to others?
4. What does this tell us about our responsibility to pass along our testimony to others?
5. Can you see God preparing friendships around you so that you have an opportunity to talk with them about Him? Will you speak up of your love for the Lord?

How awesome is it that this God we love, worship, and serve doesn't close Himself off from us. On the contrary, He has opened Himself up to us and allowed us the opportunity to experience Him first-hand. If you have accepted Christ as Lord of your life, then you too are an eyewitness of the miraculous work that Jesus did your life, wiping away your sin and changing you forever. We need to share what has happened to us with those around us. We should be just as excited in sharing with them about eternity in Heaven as we are when we are talking about how we spent our weekend. Be a strong eyewitness for Christ because you have seen Him work with your own eyes.

** Today's devo is the first in a series studying through the book of 1 John.