Take Your Candle, "Go Light Your World"!

Some are like Jonah and run from the challenge,

some are like Samuel and listen to the challenge,

And some get so excited they tell everyone else about the challenge!

John 1:40-46 MSG.

40-42. Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s witness and followed Jesus. The first thing he did after finding where Jesus lived was find his own brother, Simon, telling him, "We’ve found the Messiah" (that is, "Christ"). He immediately led him to Jesus.

Jesus took one look up and said, "You’re John’s son, Simon? From now on your name is Cephas" (or Peter, which means "Rock").

43-44. The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. When he got there, he ran across Philip and said, "Come, follow me." (Philip’s hometown was Bethsaida, the same as Andrew and Peter.)

45-46. Philip went and found Nathanael and told him, "We’ve found the One Moses wrote of in the Law, the One preached by the prophets. It’s Jesus, Joseph’s son, the one from Nazareth!" Nathanael said, "Nazareth? You’ve got to be kidding."

But Philip said, "Come, see for yourself."

The word “found” is important to see Phillip’s state of mind as it’s the same word “Eureka” in English.

Webster’s defines as: expressing triumph: used to express delight on finding, discovering, or solving something

This wasn’t just a simple discovery, he was excited, you would have thought he just struck oil, or found a gold mine!

What they had discovered was way beyond worldly wealth!

They may have been brand new disciples and didn’t totally understood everything that they believed yet,

But the main thing that they did know and realize, that this was way too good to keep to themselves.

They had to share it, they told everyone they knew and even those that they didn’t know!

It’s the new Christians that are often so vocal about their faith; they know and realize what they’ve found and they want everyone else to know it too!

There is such an excitement when someone gets saved, they cannot wait to let their little light shine,

For them, its like the light finally went on and its a wonderful experience.

You see, they haven’t gotten their faith all bogged down with other peoples opinions and traditions.

they haven’t come to believe that other people aren’t or might not be interested in what they have to say.

After all, they were interested, so others should be interested too, Right?.

There new theme song is; everybody ought to know, everybody ought to know,

everybody ought to know who Jesus is,

When did that song quit being all Christians theme song?

We need to get back the passion and excitement we once had as new born again Christians.

What a difference it would make if more people would do that!

Those disciples had it and they turned the world upside down, we can still do the same today.

Jesus hasn’t changed, he is still an “Amazing” eureka moment worth not only discovering and but also sharing with others,

And the sooner, we are all willing to get involved in telling everyone about Him, the sooner He will return to take us all home,

TBS. He won’t be returning until the whole world knows!