Questions And Answers (8)

‘Where is bread and wine?’ This is the question of the seeking heart. To those who are truly seeking, Jesus says, ‘You will find’ (Matthew 7:7). Why do we start asking the seeker’s question? His love lays hold on us. What do we find when we truly seek? His love. The love which prompted us to seek is the love which we find in Jesus Christ. Evangelism, when it is truly God-centred, will also be Christ-centred. Evangelism, which is both God-centred and Christ-centred, becomes effective through the power of the Holy Spirit. It is witness for Christ, which is grounded in walking in the Spirit. True evangelism is grounded in care and prayer. If we truly desire to see the mighty blessing of God in our day, we must care for those who are living without Christ, and we must pray for them. Caring and praying - both are vital if we are to be really used by the Lord to bring his blessing into the lives of others. Caring for those who have yet to find the Saviour, we invite them to consider the question of 1:12 - ‘Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?’ Praying for them, we pray that they will ask the seeker’s question - ‘Where is bread and wine?’ (2:12). Caring and praying, we are - by our lives and our words - to invite men and women to consider Jesus Christ and to discover for themselves what he can do in their lives. As we seek to be faithful to God in our Christian walk and witness, we will discover - despite all the difficulties facing the Christian Faith and the Christian Church - the great truth which lies at the heart of Lamentations - ‘Great is thy faithfulness.’
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This is the sixteenth post in a series on Lamentations.

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