There's one thing you've got to credit kids with...

...they're outspoken.

Kids just speak their minds.

A small boy sat with his mother in church, listening to a sermon entitled, "Who is Jesus?" The minister punctuated his talk at several key intervals by asking, "Who is Jesus?" Each time, he pounded his fist on the pulpit for emphasis.

At one point, the lad whispered to his mother, "Mama, do you know? Do you know who Jesus is?" "Yes, dear," the mother replied, "now try to sit still and listen." As the minister was wrapping up the sermon, once again he thundered, "Who is a Jesus?" and pounded especially hard on the pulpit. At that, the boy jumped up and cried out, "Tell him, Mama, tell him!"

Kids just speak their minds. They're outspoken.

You see, they haven't been told or learned the appropriate times to say certain things. Oftentimes kids don't understand when it's right and when it's wrong to share what they know, and so, they're speech is often what we would describe as "ill timed or ill placed."

And while there are, without a doubt, times that we should keep our mouths shut, and there are times we should be very cautious in speaking, there are also times that we can learn a lot from children in speaking up and not holding back. That time is when it comes to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ!

Sometimes, if we're not careful, we grow out of that "speak up and share what's on your mind" mode when it comes to presenting the Gospel. After all, for my wife to share the Gospel at school where she teaches, it's against man's law and could very easily result in her termination. What happens when the Spirit of God leads her to witness at school? Or what about where you work? It's not good for business to tell customers that they are sinners bound for hell.  What if you feel burdened to share the Gospel in that setting?

Then, there are those times when we want so bad to tell someone they need Jesus, but, it just makes us feel so uncomfortable talking to them. You see, there is this unwritten rule that says, "There are some times that it is inappropriate to share the Gospel." I wonder if that was the Lord's way of thinking. I wonder if the Apostle Paul thought that maybe there were some times that he should hold back and not share the Gospel. Did Peter and James and John express that idea? I wonder if any of the Christians who gave their lives for the cause of Christ through the ages lived by that rule.

Oh, there is a right time to share the Gospel, and that time is anywhere, anytime the Spirit of God lays it on your heart to do so. Children speak up...we are children of the Living God, how much more should we speak up and share the Good News of Jesus Christ?

You know, there are souls in our pathways every single day who are crying out for the Gospel. The lives of lost and dying people who are headed for an eternity in the lake of fire call for someone to tell them about the saving grace of our Savior.

Friends, if we look around us and listen with our hearts, we will see a field white unto harvest with souls crying out, "Who is Jesus? Who is Jesus?"

And the Spirit of God jumps up within us and cries out...

... "Tell them, Christian, tell them!"

Have a "Wonderful DAY in Christ,"
Jimmy D. Brown
\o/ Praise Jesus!