Filipinos have caught on to advertisement! When you get out of your home, go to town or travel to the city like Manila, there is no way you can miss products you love to use advertised greatly in the newspapers, radio, television, handouts, posters and in the various sizes of billboards! We love advertisement! What we use are what we see around, Thus, manufacturers make their advertisement so real and beautiful that we too cannot just change these products even though a newer and stronger product is made claiming better results if we use them. At least, not until such a product is advertised greatly that later on, we too will try and start to use these to our advantage!
But, what is advertisement? The Webster dictionary tells us that “this is a paid notice” in the newspaper or mass media for the purpose of “making generally known.”
Rightly so! Through the mass media, we have been informed of the product we cannot exchange because of the so many “notices” we have heard and seen and now we are confident this will give us satisfaction. Thus, we patronize this and that product because they are well known!
Come to think of it, God in his creation made this and that we see around in their most beautiful appearance! For example, the flowers of the plants and trees, their natural beauty can never be surpassed. And, the number and size they come will surely satisfy us if not cause us to think that God made all of them!
Psalms 19: 1, 2 says: “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, night unto night showeth knowledge.”
The “heavens” and the “firmament” referred to here are the skies that we can see and the beauty of all the creation of God. Their vastness is without an end. Beauty after beauty that we can see and surely appreciate everything. This is emphasized more if we are on an airplane on a clear night and we are above the clouds, the twinkling stars and the endless universe reminds us of Almighty God! How beautiful are his creation! They come so many! And, they are all marvelous to us! We like them and treasure their beauties!
While here on earth and above the waters and seas, we are shown all the beautiful creation of God. We see the flowers, the trees, the mountains and beyond! These are so many and all of them so wonderfully and beautifully made by God Almighty!
In our travels, we see the newly planted rice. On another location, the rice plant starts to show flowers. And, then, a little further and up in the hills, the golden heads of grains! When we come around our table, the smell and aroma of the rice that we eat! After a while, we notice that the rice plants and the golden grains make us hungry for more rice! We like rice! And, we keep on eating rice because that is all we know that will make us strong and healthy!
Altogether, we like our rice because we see the processes it came about in such wondrous ways, that we prefer it over the wheat and the like which we are unfamiliar with! We do not know that these are better than our rice! So, the process goes on and on!
Should we be transported to another place where the wheat plant is abundant and the flowering and the ripening of the wheat grains – we might then change and say: the wheat bread is far better!
We can multiply our example and the result will be the same – through the information and common knowledge of these, we become a part of them! We eat them! We use them! And, we are not likely to change until such that we see and hear good information about these, then and only then, we might change for the better!
This is also true with the Word of God! The more and more that we hear and see about the Bible and the teachings of God Almighty, then these can mean more meaningful to us. And, we accept this and that teaching according to the Word of God through good information that we hear and see!
What then is needed? We need more people to talk more about the Bible, the Word of God, the church, the Christian life, heaven and the reward and benefit we get in being a child of God. Or, we need to advertise more about the spiritual things so people will later on will change for the better – if not the best!
We should show ourselves as Christians as “lights” and “salt” of the earth. We need to speak out the oracles of God! From our mouths, others will hear and know what God wants us to do in order to be saved!
Matthew 5:13 to 16 the “salt” can lose its ingredient of “salt.” A good salt should have a quality of usefulness. If it is a “rock” and cannot “melt” or “use” its properties of a salt, then, this salt is good for nothing! A salt that is easily used preserves and gives good taste to our food. This is true also with the light. A light is only good if its quality of usefulness is seen! Hide it and there is no light!
Therefore, let us not forget God Almighty’s creation of the heavens and everything in it. It is an unending process! These are all good and beautiful to behold! It was an continues “advertisement!” We must also find many people who can teach others. Your help and share is most needed, brother and sister. Let us be “salts of the earth” and “light in the world.” We must be useful in order to be pleasing to God. Let us begin that work and continue to the end! That will be a “life of service” unto God Almighty!
