To The End Of The Earth

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. 

Acts 1:8 

As Christ spoke His last few words to His disciples before He ascended into heaven, He laid out before them a simple, but ambitious mission. He told them they would be ‘witnesses to Me.’ This would absorb all the rest of their life. He went on to say where they would be witnesses to Him. He said they would begin in Jerusalem, then expand their witness to Judea, Samaria and finally, ‘to the end of the earth.’ Their witness would be in their own neighborhood, then in the surrounding district, then in a neighboring district, then finally to the farthest reaches of the earth. As we read the balance of the book of Acts, we see how this began to come to pass. Peter stood up on the Day of Pentecost and began to witness of Christ in Jerusalem. The remainder of the book shows the rapid expansion of the Gospel. We have the opportunity to begin as witnesses to Christ in our own neighborhood. Wherever we go, we have the privilege of witnessing to Christ. His testimony is still relevant and worthy to be preached to the end of the earth. 

Our Gracious Master and our God, 
we rejoice that You have given us the privilege 
to speak of You. 
We praise You that anywhere we go, 
is a worthy place to speak of Christ. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning