Friday Morning

Concept: Proclaim the Message

Today’s question is: If you discovered a new cure-all drug that would cure cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, heart disease, malaria, tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, tetanus, meningitis, the common cold, the flu (including H1N1), and allergies all in a single dosage of a homemade cure that can be easily put together with items to which everyone has free access, who would you tell? I discovered that a few years back. I figure maybe I’ll publish it some day.

No way! Unless you’re a sadistic jerk, you would tell everyone. In fact, you would try to spread the word fast enough that no one could try to control it. It’s information that can save lives! You would give it away a quickly as possible, giving it to all the sick people you can find. And you would tell the ones you told to pass it on to others.

There was a man from the desert with naps on his head
The sand that he walked was also his bed
The words that he spoke made the people assume
There wasn't too much left in the upper room
With skins on his back and hair on his face
They thought he was strange by the locusts he ate
You see The Pharisees tripped when they heard him speak
Until the king took the head of this Jesus freak

-DC Talk (Jesus Freak) about John the Baptist

John the Baptist was an interesting dude. He sported the newest line of camel hair with a leather belt. He lived in the wilderness. He ate bugs and honey … all the time. He was born obsessed with one thing: The messiah is coming. Get ready. Remember yesterday’s word, “repent”? That was John’s favorite word and he said it a lot.

The Jews were tired of the occupying Roman government. The messiah was supposed to be a deliverer from bondage. Naturally, they expected that to mean deliverance from Rome’s rule, but it was so, so much more. When John said the messiah was coming, people headed to the desert in droves to hear him. Then he hit them with his favorite word: Repent! Turn back to God! Return to Sender!

It’s an enduring message. If you haven’t yet, Return to Sender! Return postage is free! If you have embraced this message, it’s time to spread the word. This is the cure to the disease of sin that ails us all.

Remember this concept: Proclaim the Message.