One For All

“See that you say nothing to anyone...instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news.” Mark 1:45

Through experience, I learn something in my own culture that breaking the heart of one means breaking the heart of all. Many leadership tragedies happened because they broke the heart of just one humble worker. The sympathy of all workers to just one who poured out his heartache to his fellow workers became a big fight between workers versus administrators.

This is something we need to learn. This is true also in the Asian classroom situation that having a relationship problem with one student means having a fight to all. Then after all who would listen to you then? This means that you are no longer effective in reaching them all because of that one person.

But this cultural principle could be use to accomplish our task. Being kind to one seems unlovable person in the village, seems like you are doing it to all, because everyone will know about the good things you did for him. After Jesus healed the sick person He said, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you, and has had compassion on you.” Mark 5:19. But in other occasion Jesus warned the miraculously healed leper in Mark 1:44, 45 but “instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.” And everyone knew.

But we don’t have to do this just for catching their attention, but as real Christians with real intention to glorify God, this action just comes within us naturally. “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matt.25: 45. Then we become the light, spreading the character of Jesus not only His words.