Bee Pollen And The Gospel

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. --Colossians 4:6

Nellie Pickard loves to tell people about Jesus Christ. She does it so often that she's written a series of books describing how she witnesses in everyday situations. In Just Say It! she tells about her phone call to a health-food store. She had noticed that bee pollen was on sale, so she asked the manager about the benefits of using it. "You'll live forever," he replied.

To Nellie, the words live forever were an open invitation. "I know you're joking," she said, "but I know I'm going to live forever, and not because I buy your bee pollen."

His response was encouraging. "I'd like to hear about it. I'm really interested in why you think you're going to live forever." Although he did not trust Jesus as Savior at that time, Nellie had planted the seed by being wise "toward those who are outside" (Col. 4:5).

Our opportunities are endless, yet our words are often powerless. Instead of directing our conversations with unbelievers toward spiritual matters, we tend to stay in the safe zone. Doing as Nellie does is a skill we need to develop and a challenge that comes straight from God's Word.

We must look for those openings. With sincere kindness and genuine concern we can turn most conversations to eternal matters--even if the subject is bee pollen. Kind a reminds me of that skater Jay Adams.

Here is further reading when you want to know more about the Gospel that I found in a christian magazine.

Colossians 4:2-6 (New International Version)

Further Instructions
2Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. 3And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. 4Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. 5Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. 6Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Finding contentment

Will i am inspired me with his rendition of the Barrack Obama speech Yes We Can. The speech moved the nation with a promise to be great again. However, in my daily reflection God impressed upon me that the problem that most of us face is not that fact that we cannot have what we NEED. Rather, the problem stems from the fact that we cannot afford the things that we WANT.

Most of the text that I've read about being content quotes 1 Timothy 6:10. It says there that,



"For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains."

For some strange reason, this verse is the most quoted yet misunderstood. It does not say that money is bad nor that it say that you should not desire to have money. What it says is that you can find contentment not in great wealth but in few wants.

1 Timothy 6:6-9 says,

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

In verse 11 it continues,

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

A christian magazine suggested that the next time we ask for God's abundant blessings in our lives, why don't we ask for contentment instead? Can we do that? As will i am would say, Yes we can. By God's grace we can.