It Continues With ONE

     It all starts with ONE, that ONE being Jesus.  But it continues with ONE, that ONE being someone who has come to know Christ as their Savior.  Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist.  One day John sees Jesus and declares, "Behold, the Lamb of God!".  At that point Andrew left John the Baptist, and began to follow Jesus.  As Jesus is going on His way, He looks and sees Andrew following Him so He asks Andrew in John 1:38, "What seek ye?".  What exactly are you looking for, Andrew?  Andrew lets Jesus know that He wants to spend more time with Him, to get to know Him better, and so Jesus invites Him to come over to where He is staying.
     Throughout Scripture, you find that if someone wants to spend time with Jesus, He invites them to come.  If someone wants to get to know Jesus better, He invites theme to come.  All throughout the Bible, we find the invitation to come unto Him.  I am reminded of Revelation of the great invitation of Revelation 22:17 which says, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.  And let him that heareth say, Come.  And let him that is athirst come.  And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."  Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."  He said in Mark 10:14, "Suffer the the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of heaven."  Andrew told Jesus that he wanted to come, so Jesus invited him to come.
     Before Andrew ever went to find ONE to reach for Christ, he first spent time getting to know Him.  the same will be true of us.  When we love someone, we want to spend time with them.  We want to find out all about them.  We begin to see what is important to them, and that starts to become important to us.  The most important thing to Jesus is reaching those who are lost in their sin.  Jesus makes that very clear in Luke 19:10, "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost."  He told His disciples that the reason that He came was "not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many." The salvation of the lost was and is important to Jesus.  The more time we spend with Him, the more important it will be to us.
     Once Andrew spent time with Jesus, he realized that there was ONE that he needed to reach.  And that was his brother Peter.  John 1:41-42a, "He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.  And he brought him to Jesus."  What ONE has God brought into your life, that you might reach them with the Gospel?  And how will you bring them to Jesus?  It starts with ONE, Jesus.  It continues with ONE, you.