Aug
21
2014

We Have Something That You Need

Posted in Evangelism | Leave a comment

The 2012 Hurricane season will long be remembered.
Superstorm Sandy, a Category 2 storm, raged off the northeast coast of the United States.
There was an estimated 65 billion dollars worth of damage.
The whole eastern seaboard was affected.

Twenty-four states were impacted by the storm.
Damage was most severe in New Jersey and New York.
A storm surge hit New York, which flooded streets, tunnels, and subway lines.
Power was cut to the city.

The pictures I remember most from Hurricane Sandy were not ones of devastation.
The pictures I remember most were those of people helping others after the storm.
For me, one picture will be the iconic picture of that 2012 storm.
It is a simple picture that was taken outside a house.

A home on an unnamed city street; a house with a wrought iron fence.
On the fence was a simple sign.
WE HAVE POWER. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CHARGE YOUR PHONE.
Hanging over the fence were two power strips with all the outlets being used.

Practical Good Samaritan.
We have something that you need.
Let us share it with you.
Until that horrific storm, no one realized how utterly dependent they are on technology.

Driving yesterday in the place that rejuvenates my spirit, I saw it.
I glanced over at my daughter to see if she noticed the sign.
She was looking the other way and had missed it.
It was the practical Good Samaritan again, this time without the storm.

It was a sign you would only see in this place; the place of Amish buggies and horses.
A small handwritten sign was attached to a metal stake in the ground.
An old green garden hose was lying curled up beside the sign.
The sign read: WATER FOR HORSES.

Enough said.
Any one of the Amish farmers or their families could water their horses here.
Right there on the side of the road.
They had something the horses might need.

Abraham was now old and well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. He said to the chief servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh. I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son, Isaac…So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham, and swore an oath to him concerning the matter. Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and left, taking with him all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor. He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time when the women go out to draw water. Then he prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, give me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham. See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. May it be that when I say to a girl, ‘Please let down your water jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink and I’ll water your camels too’ – let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac.” (Genesis 24:1-4,9-14)

As only God could do, Rebekah came out to draw water.
She was beautiful, and Abraham’s servant asked her for some water.
Drink, my lord…I’ll draw water for your camels, too…(Genesis 24:18,19)
Abraham’s servant knew that he had found a wife for Isaac.

A camel can drink as much as 30 gallons of water in 15 minutes.
The servant had 10 camels with him, which meant that 300 gallons of water was needed.
Rebekah was the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother.
She was the daughter of Bethuel, Abraham’s nephew.

God answered the servant’s prayer abundantly.

I thought of this as I passed the handwritten sign on the lawn.
WATER FOR HORSES.
A simple gesture that means so much.
I thought of how many horses pass that house each day and how many must have stopped.

We have something others need as well.
Better than the power strips in New York City or the water from a hose in Lancaster.
We have the Gospel to share; the message of salvation for hungry, thirsty people.
The power they need for salvation and the Living Water that will flow.

We have what they need.
Are we sharing it?

Can you see our sign?
WE HAVE POWER.
FEEL FREE TO CHARGE YOUR SOUL.

Can you see it?
LIVING WATER FOR YOU TO DRINK.

Why are we not sharing?
We have something the world desperately needs.
The power of the Holy Spirit, the only thing that can change a heart.
So many hearts are dead, lifeless, and need to be charged.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew and then for the Gentile. (Romans 1:16)

Put out the Power Strip.
Help them plug in.
We have something they desperately need.
Put out your sign; they will come.

 

Whispers of His Movement and Whispers in Verse books are now available in paperback and e-book!

http://www.whispersofhismovement.com/book/

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *