It’s New Year’s Eve and in a few hours from Time Square in New York to Main Street in Waycross, Georgia many folks are getting dressed up or going out to watch the celebration the dawn of a new year.
2023 like any new year is loaded with what I call watchful questions. Will my health hold up in this year to come? What challenges will my children and those I love face? What adventures await me as I consider a host of life changing opportunities.
Watchful questions are good things. Yes, the answers to the watchful question can be difficult, but watchful questions if asked and answered properly can bring serenity satisfaction, and stability to our lives.
Matthew 11:2-11 depicts the imprisonment of John The Baptist. Receiving word of the miracles performed by Jesus John gathers his disciples and sends them off to find Christ with this watchful question: “Are you really the one we are watching for, or shall we keep on looking?”
John’s disciples went out and found Jesus. They asked John The Baptist the watchful question: “Are you really the one we are waiting for, or shall we keep on looking?” Jesus by simply saying watch me.
The scripture text tells us that Jesus said: “Go back to John and tell him about the miracles you have watched me do. You have watched the blind regain sight, you have watched the sick healed, you have watched the lame walk, lepers cured, deaf who now hear, and you have watched the dead raised to life.
Go back and tell John about my preaching the Good News to the poor, then give him this message, “Blessed are those who don’t doubt me.”
If any of John’s disciples were doubting Jesus before, they are doubters no more. For you see John asked the watchful question not for himself but to shore up the belief of his own disciples.
So, as we enter this new year the watchful question for all of us is: “Are we really the Christians God is waiting for, or shall He keep on looking?”
If God dispatched an angel to watch, you 2022 what did they see?
Did the angel watch your commitment to prayer and studying His word?
Did the angle watch your dedication to help the poor?
Did the angle watch you as you put Jesus first in your life?
Did the angle watch you spread the Lord’s gospel making disciples far and wide?
Remember Jesus said: “Blessed are those who don’t doubt me.” So, the watchful question for 2023 is “Are we really the Christians God is watching for, or shall He keep on looking?”
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