EACH ONE, BRING ONE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 

“He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.’” Mt 4:19 NKJV 

A missionary surgeon in one of China’s hospitals restored sight to a man who had been nearly blinded by cataracts. A few weeks later, to his great surprise, forty eight blind men showed up on his hospital doorstep. They had all come to be cured. Amazingly, these blind men had walked more than 250 miles from a remote area of China to get to the hospital. They had traveled holding onto a rope chain. Their guide and their inspiration was the blind man who had been cured. The Christian evangelist Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman concluded from his study of the New Testament gospels that Jesus healed some forty people personally and directly. Of this number, thirty-four were brought to Him or to His attention by friends or family members, or Jesus was taken to an ailing person by others. Only six of the forty people healed found their way to Jesus, or He to them, without someone assisting. When Jesus first recruited His disciples, He told them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” And He did. The Bible says of Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother: “He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’...and he brought him to Jesus” (Jn1:41-42 NKJV). Again we read: “Philip found Nathaniel and said to him, ‘We have found Him of whom Moses...and also the prophets, wrote Jesus of Nazareth’” (Jn1:45 NKJV). So the word for you today is this: Never let an opportunity go by without telling others about Christ or leading them to the Lord.