The sinner looks for answers in all the wrong places; yoga, meditation, prescription medicine, drugs, alcohol, self-esteem products, even in a false religion. Anything apart from the God of the Bible.
There is nothing more pitiful than scoffing at someone who is destined to fail. Imagine scoffing a blind man for unknowingly stumbling towards a cliff.
Christians have a finite window in our earthly bodies on this planet, to save sinners from an eternal destruction.Sinners too have a finite window in their earthly bodies on this planet, in order to hear the Good News.
The World Wide Web is such a huge place, and there are billions of unsaved people that use it. This is such an amazing evangelistic opportunity, pandemic or not! You can do this!
There are so many ‘nice’ people out there, who believe that their gods and their good works will make up for their lack of righteousness. But when they stand before God on judgement day, their gods will desert them. Their good works will be exposed as futile. They will be called to render a payment, and the time will have passed to accept the payment of another. They will be destroyed in the final storm.
Don’t feel horrible if you failed to witness to someone. And don’t feel horrible that you didn’t do it 100% right the first time. It’s OK, it happens all the time, and it will undoubtedly happen again.The most important thing is that through repentance, you wash the stain of the sin of disobedience off in the ocean of Christ’s mercy.
“You don’t become a missionary by crossing the sea, but by seeing the cross”.
How many conditions do you place on your calling? Are you prepared to just say ‘yes’ without exception, or are you playing God by sharing the best news people will ever hear, with just a select few?
I went to ask Jim if he had stolen, but he talked over me. I let him talk. Sometimes the best way to put people at ease is to let them talk about their favourite subject: themselves. I didn’t mind – I enjoy listening to the old-timers talk about the old days anyway.
It is natural when we are fearful, to want to rely on our inner strength to get us through. Adrenaline can be our best friend, but if it goes against our conscience, it can also be our worst enemy.