Daily Devotional for December 26, 2021
Quiz Out of Season
“Today we’re going to start out with something different,” Mr. Prescott told his class at church. “I’m going to give you a little quiz.” The kids groaned. “Don’t look at your paper until I say you can,” said Mr. Prescott with a smile. He walked around the table and placed a sheet of paper and a pencil in front of everyone. Then he walked back to the front of the class. “Okay…go!”
Sam knew the Bible stories they’d talked about well, so he confidently picked up his pencil and turned the paper over. Then he looked at Mr. Prescott in surprise. What is he thinking? Sam wondered. He noticed the other kids looked puzzled too. Sam raised his hand. “Mr. Prescott, this is a math test.”
“Yep,” replied Mr. Prescott. “Look it over. Can you do the problems?”
“I guess so,” said Sam. “It looks easy, but I don’t understand why you’re giving us a math test in church.”
“Yeah,” said Sam’s friend Theo. “We don’t study math here.”
Mr. Prescott smiled. “You’re right,” he said. “We do certain things in certain places, don’t we? So, where do we study math?”
“In school!” the kids chorused.
“Okay,” said Mr. Prescott. “And where do we talk about Jesus?”
The answer came loud and clear. “In church!”
“Right! We should talk about Him here,” Mr. Prescott agreed. “But Jesus wants us to talk about Him in other places too. The Bible says we need to be ready to answer those who ask us about our faith. It says to be ready to preach the word ‘in season and out of season.’ In other words, we need to talk about Jesus and what He did for us when it seems to be the normal place to do that—like in church—and when it doesn’t.”
“You mean…like in school?” Sam asked.
“That’s right,” said Mr. Prescott. “You all know enough about math to do this test here at church, and you also use math in your everyday life—such as how to cut a pizza so everyone gets a piece. Knowing Jesus is like that too. He’s not only present with you at church—He’s with you everywhere, all the time. And He’ll help you talk to others about Him no matter where you are.”
-Ann LaCombe
How about you?
Do you talk about Jesus wherever you are? It wouldn’t be hard to tell someone that two plus two equals four, would it? It shouldn’t be so hard to tell people that Jesus loves them either. Don’t talk about Him only at church or only to your Christian friends. Learn to talk about Jesus no matter where you are or who you’re with. Make it a natural part of your conversation.
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