Someone asked me recently, how they could serve God. I started to list some of the things we can do as believers, but she kept interrupting, 'Oh I couldn't do that I'm not like you.'  

Not like me!

Now if only I had a penny for every time someone said to my wife Rosie, 'How do you live with him,' I'd be worth a fortune.

What they are trying to say is that I'm loud, confident and as a speaker am able to stand in front of a crowd, and because of that I must be the same at home.

However, the private Kevin Johns is very different to the public one and let me put right one big misunderstanding and that is being chosen to serve God is not related to our personality.

Loud and extrovert, quiet and shy, we are all called to God's service and be assured that the Lord has a MAJOR part for you to play in his plan in spreading the Good News of Jesus to all.

HOW CAN YOU AND I SERVE GOD

We serve God by carrying the light of the Gospel to the world in which we live. The people we come into contact with everyday - neighbours, those we work alongside, fellow students, family and loved ones.

We serve God by taking the message of the greatest miracle of all, 'SALVATION,' to the world. Together we proclaim the message to all, carrying the light of the Gospel, letting it shine on us to the ends of the earth.

There are 6 billion souls on earth today and many will be lost eternally unless someone shares the Gospel message with them. Remember we can only evangelise on this side of Heaven.

God's desire is that people find Christ. In 1 John we read, 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.'

I spent a lot of time collecting stories for my radio shows, stories to put a smile on people's faces in the morning. I find these wacky stories in magazines, papers, books and now via the internet.

During my search I often come across stories which we can use to  illustrate the message of the Gospel.

Louis Pasteur, the pioneer of immunology lived at a time when thousands of people died each year of rabies. Pasteur had worked for years on a vaccine and just as he was about to start to experiment on himself, a nine year old Josef Meister was bitten by a rabid dog.

The boy's mother begged Pasteur to experiment on her son, he injected the boy for 10 days - and he lived.

Decades later of all the things he could have etched on his
headstone, he asked for three words: Josef Meister lived.

Our greatest legacy will be those who live eternally because we took the time to witness to them.

We are called, people around the world will never see Jesus, but they see us! They may not hear his voice but
they will hear ours.

'Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have,'  1 Peter 3.15.

Stephen Spielberg's movie, 'Saving Private Ryan,' tells the story of an Army Captain, John Miller (played by Tom Hanks) who after the D-Day invasion at Normandy Beach is ordered to find a single Private amongst thousands of displaced soldiers. He must return Private James F. Ryan home to his mother, whose other three sons have been killed in action.

Captain Miller and his small group of men successfully locate Ryan, but then are forced to defend a strategic bridge against enemy tanks and troops. Captain Miller is fatally wounded and in his dying moments reaches out to Ryan and with great emotion says, 'Earn this, earn this.'

Many years later as an old man, James Ryan stands in a veteran's cemetery tearfully looking at the gravestone of the man who had saved his life and wonders out loud if he had earned the great gift that he's received.

I've asked a similar question of God who has saved my life physically as an answer to prayer and saved me spiritually when my eyes opened to the Good News of the Christian Message.

In 1 Corinthians 1:27 we read; 'But God chose the foolish
things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong'

God chose me, GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU!

2,000 years ago Jesus died on the cross that we might live for ever - that's a message worth sharing.