Usually we reach out around the world in our efforts to win people to Christ.  We support missionaries in Africa, Russia, Romania, and Mexico (and that is exactly what we should do).  God honors our foreign-mission dollars, but have we ever stopped the whirlwind life we are living and realized there are unsaved right around the corner from us? 

We cannot all go to the far places of the earth, but we can all go to the nearest place us with the Gospel message.  Whether we realize it or not, people are watching us, and many are modeling their lives according to what they see in us. 

What does your neighbor hear you saying?  Does it line up with what you are doing?  Most importantly, does it line up with God’s Word?  Do you realize someday God is going to ask you about your neighbor, about the nurse in the doctor’s office, the checker at the grocery store, even the postman?  How will you answer Him?

 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

O Lord, change me.  May my actions and reactions point others to You.  In Jesus’ name, Amen.