Why Do You Stand Watching?

The Book of Acts opens by describing an amazing scene.

Christ, the risen savior, has appeared to over 500 people on more than eleven separate occasions. He has walked with them, spoken to them, eaten with them, and shown them his scars.

Now, they stand on Mount Olivet and He gives them one final instruction: "you shall be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."

Then Christ rises into a cloud, to sit at the right hand of God the Father until He returns to earth.

What do His disciples do? They stand and watch.

Scripture tells us that two angels ask them "why do you stand looking into the sky?"

Today's Christians are too often like the disciples standing on Mount Olivet that night. We know Christ's commandments to "preach the gospel," to "be ready, in season and out," and to be Christ's witnesses in all the world, and yet, too often we stand around and watch.

We watch sports, we watch TV, we watch people walk by, we watch time tick away... when we should be sharing the truth with others.

Why do we stand watching?

Perhaps a better question is, how can we stand watching when we know the truth? How can we keep quiet when we know that the path to destruction is wide, but the road to righteousness is narrow? How can we watch people walk by when we know that without Christ those people are doomed on Judgment Day?

Today, stop gazing. Today, stop watching. Today, start sharing the gospel by handing out tracts or sharing the gospel with those around you.

For information on how to hand out tracts, or share the gospel, see the resources listed on the left-hand side of this blog.