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Thursday, December 12

¹⁷Now when they had seen Him, they made ^[a]widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child.
Luke 2:17

When Robert Annan of Scotland gave his life for Christ, he immediately felt a burden for the lost. A stonemason by trade, he devoted his spare time to witnessing on the streets, often writing Bible verses in chalk on the sidewalks. He witnessed to everyone he met. He drowned at age 32 while saving a boy who fell into the river. Thousands attended his funeral, and afterward a man was seen on his grave, sobbing and saying, “I have been a very wicked man, but the grace of God, perhaps, will do for me what it did for Robert Annan.”

Recommended Reading:
Mark 5:18-20
¹⁸And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him. ¹⁹However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.” ²⁰And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

When the shepherds left the stable on that first Christmas, they couldn’t keep quiet. They told everyone what they had seen. The disciples did the same after the Resurrection, saying, “We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20).

Witnessing means telling others what has happened to you. Let’s pray for spiritual excitement in telling others the wonderful things God has done for us. This season say a word for the Savior.

I love you, and my prayer is that your heart may be broken by the power and love of Christ and His cross.
Robert Annan

Read through the Bible:
1 Thessalonians 1 – 5