“I am under obligation both to Greeks and to the uncultured,
both to the wise and to the foolish. So, for my part,
I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation
to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith;
as it is written: ‘But the righteous one will live by faith.’”
— Romans 1:14-17

Do you realize that every true Christian is sitting on a potential powder keg of spiritual blessings for people who they encounter in their everyday lives? This includes you.

But the blessings remain only “potential” until you release them by an act of faith in the Holy Spirit who dwells within you.

The key is to be intentional about how you choose to live out your life as a bodily expression of Christ in a world starving for hope.

The late Bible commentator Bill MacDonald wrote: “Anyone who has Christ has the answer to the world’s deepest need. He has the cure to the disease of sin, the way to escape the eternal horrors of hell, and the guarantee of everlasting happiness with God. This puts him under solemn obligation to share the good news with people of all cultures — barbarians — and people of all degrees of learning — wise and unwise. Paul felt the obligation keenly. He said, ‘I am a debtor.’”

The Apostle Paul came to realize more than most men how close he came to perishing without hope, as he madly forged ahead with his plans to snuff out Christianity in its infancy.

From Acts 9:1-6:

“Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them in shackles to Jerusalem. Now as he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him; and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’ And he said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told to you what you must do.”

Paul also knew that he was the direct recipient of a startling personal act of grace and mercy by the Savior Himself. Talk about being a debtor!

You and I, as Christians, are debtors, too. Remember, our salvation was no accident. God had us in His crosshairs since forever.

As written in Ephesians 1:3-6:

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.”

Gospel Power

So, what’s all this “powder keg” talk? It all begins at “Ground Zero” for God’s redemptive plan for the world — the Gospel — which Paul declares to be, “power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.”

It has been argued that every time a person is born again, the same power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead is unleashed.

Transforming a person from spiritual death to spiritual life takes divine horsepower, and in your sharing the gospel with someone, you are co-laboring with God Himself in His ongoing work of redeeming mankind.

Before you were a Christian, do you remember when the Gospel crashed your party of sinful living? Do you recall the life-changing effects of finally “getting it?” I sure do.

Don’t deprive others of the same experience of the kind of joy you experienced by remaining silent.

The Christian faith is being challenged by academia, the media, our post-Christian culture, calling our faith mere myth.

So, show them what real faith looks like “with shoe leather on it” through your life.

How About You?

So, do you see yourself the way God sees you as a potential font of blessing for others?

So, why not get out there and “wear your faith on your sleeve” and watch how God makes you a “spiritual hotspot.”