Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

I woke up early this morning and I have been thinking seriously about witnessing. I’ve come to a conclusion that I have to be more precise in what I say. It is not like the witnesses to an accident reporting to the police. “I was standing over here and I saw this. She was standing over there and did not see this because her view was blocked. I cannot tell you what she saw.”

Witnessing Jesus is more like this. 100 plus X is dependent on X. 100 is a constant that never changes, it is not a variant. If I am X then the answer would not be the same if you were X. We are different, we are the variants. Christ is the constant.

Another way to put it is this. There is a difference in what Jesus has done for me and what Jesus has done with me. There is a variable in what Jesus done with us. We are the variable.

I have been guilty of telling people and perhaps even judging people in connection with what Jesus can do with them. Just because Jesus did this with me, does not mean He will do the same with others. The variables change. That does not identify and bring clarity to the constant.

He did a sovereign healing of drug addiction in me. It is not right for me to tell drug addicts that Jesus will do the same for them if they will to just believe. It is my wish that He would, but my wish is not His will. What He has done for me is not what He does with me.

A good witness removes self from the equation.