Chuck Swindoll tells about going to the San Diego Zoo not far from his home several years ago. While there he and a bus load of other zoo visitors along with their salty guide had a rare treat seldom witnessed in that hundred-acre nucleus of Balboa Park. It was so rare that their talkative guide was muted. They happened upon a newborn four-footed species that he didn’t recognize. It was tiny and barely two minutes old. He writes, “There it lay out in the open. Still curled as though in the womb. Wet, wide-eyed, and flop-eared, that awkward, fuzzy ball of new life was blinking at its very first glimpse of dirt, rock, sun, and water. Standing over it was its mama…The other animals? Hardly a second glance. They milled around totally unconcerned.”

Swindoll then makes the spiritual application we need to hear. He pens that for the new Christian it is, “New hope. New attitudes. New feelings. New direction. New destiny. The newborn shakes his head, blinks, looks around at his first glimpse of new life, and he can hardly believe it. And the world? Why of course, it rushes on. Unconcerned, busy, preoccupied…Although it doesn’t attract a second glance from those standing around, God’s kingdom is being silently enlarged.”

What newborn Christian is amongst your acquaintances? Fellow believer come to their aid. Don’t be unconcerned, too busy, too preoccupied to notice. They need you!