You shall be my witnesses

“You shall be my witnesses, and you shall be my witnesses…to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8)

My dear brethren, how can you face that unknown tomorrow? How can you face it without going mad, unless you know God as a loving Father, and place your hope in Him in the person of Christ? If you do this, fear will not creep in. Tomorrow will remain strange to you, and may seem bleak, but the gentle and powerful hands of the Father are working behind the scenes, and are managing it with wisdom and power.

He will work in you to bear all that the future holds for you. If you set in your hearts the absolute priority and the unparalleled honor of being witnesses of Christ, then you will be perfectly safe, and you will be saved from the mouth of the lion, as the preaching is done through you.

If you do not For the future will be dark and barren, and stormy like the sea, and peace will be lost, and hope will vanish, and friendships will be weak, and strength will wither, and dignity will vanish, and life will be lost like a man slipping on a gelatinous handful of sand on the shore of a vast ocean. The important thing we should think about in regard to the future is our work; not what will make us happy or what will make us miserable, but what we will do.

This is healthy and right. The greatest antidote to the disease of expecting the future in a certain way is to regard life as an opportunity for service. Do not worry about the future; let the future take care of itself. Work! The greatest work we should do in the days to come is to be witnesses of Christ. This is the true meaning of life. We can do this in times of joy as well as in times of sorrow, for it gives life a special sweetness, so the words of this verse also carry a promise of protection and protection.

By John MacArthur