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Hello and welcome to giveattentiontoreading.com, where you can get your daily dose of the Great Physician’s medicine. Today’s reading comes from Acts chapters 15 and 16. I’d like to give attention to Acts 16:25-30.

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened. When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, ‘Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.’ And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and silas. Then he brought them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’”

I know we’re all looking for better ways to get the word about Jesus Christ out to others. We’re hoping to find that amazing video series. Or maybe that stellar blog that we could refer to folks. Or maybe a series of Bible studies that we know is just working wonders. But in this passage we find one of the most effective ways of getting the message of Jesus Christ out.

Just live the message.

Paul and Silas, here in prison, are not actively evangelizing, if you will. While they are there in the stocks, they’re not trying to ask someone if they believe in Jesus or if they’d like to have a Bible study. Instead, they’re just living their faith. They’re praising God. They’re singing hymns. They’re praying. And, apparently, at least one person was listening.

Then when the earthquake hit and faced with fear for his life, the jailer comes in wanting what Paul and Silas have. And he asks them, “What must I do to be saved?”

You see, when we live our faith, folks who are around us are seeing it. They may not be interested today, and they may not be interested tomorrow. But you never know when that earthquake is going to hit. And when it does, they know who they can turn to.

Now don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying to back off on any of the active forms of evangelism that you’re doing. We certainly want to ask folks for Bible studies and invite folks to attend assemblies and classes with us and talk to folks about whether or not they believe in Jesus. But we need to remember that one of the most effective tools for evangelism that we have is living our faith, living for Jesus, and letting folks around us see the fruit.

Today, I want to live for Jesus. Who knows who might see.

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