Faithful Servant in Tough Times

 Scripture Reading: Matthew 24:42-51
Focus Verse: Matthew 24:45  "A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them."

As you look at the bad news from around the world today, you would think that the world is falling apart.  It's true that there is conflict and serious problems in many countries, but what are we to do during such difficult times?

Dwight Moody once said, "I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel.  It's ruin is getting nearer and nearer.  God said, Moody, here's a lifeboat.  Go out and rescue as many as you can before the ship sinks."

The answer is that we are to do the same thing in tough times that we do during times of peace when everything is going well.  John 9:4 says, "We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.  The night is coming, and then no one can work."  There is a final day coming when our work must stop.  If we don't get busy now, we will not be able to finish the task Christ has given us to do.

If the end seemed near then in 1899 when Moody lived, how much closer to the end we must be now?  Much of the world is still open to the Gospel.  What are you doing about it?  We are not responsible for the generation that lived before us, and we are not responsible for the generation that will live after us.  We are responsible to reach this generation for Christ.

Every year we are seeing thousands of people come to Christ in Western Kenya, but also every year thousands of people die and slip into eternity without Christ.  We will not stop giving out the good news.  We will not retreat, we will not get tired.  We will work until that final day when Christ returns and takes us home.

Bobby Johnson
Interlocking Ministries