I am who I am. I am a sinner. A bad sinner. I was born a sinner.But I am a saved sinner. I was dead but now I am alive. This doesn't make me perfect. Far from it in fact. I am a work in progress. But God loves me just the way I am. Tattoos, piercings, the occasional bad word and all. I still sin, and God loves me anyway. Just the way I am.
We have an opportunity. An amazing opportunity to share this same love with the world. Let's do it. Not by trying to act perfect or like we have all the answers but by being honest. By being ourselves. By taking the time and praying for the courage to stop and say to someone. "God loves you, no strings attached. And He wants you to be saved." It's hard because so often we feel like sharing the Gospel will end in social suicide. If we tell someone they are sinful and need a Savior, it might make them not want to be our friend. But what is more important, having a friend or someone's eternal destiny? If you think of them as your friend, how much do you love them really if you don't want to share Jesus with them because you are afraid it will make you uncool? I mean, really.
It may be that by sharing the Gospel with someone you will be rejected by them. Being a Christian in a bold way may make you some enemies. But we still meed to do it. Jesus will give you the courage and the boldness to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done. Because you never know. Maybe that person won't reject you. Maybe they will accept what you have to say. Maybe they are secretly looking for Jesus and you don't know it. The point is, you still have to try.
Even if you don't see it now, you never know what seeds you will plant to be used to God's glory. The sower threw the seeds everywhere. He didn't look for the fertile soil and then carefully plant the seeds. The seeds fell everywhere and as a result, it fell on the fertile soil. If he had been too afraid of wasting seed that he didn't plant at all, he would have never gotten a crop.
It's not about us and our social comfort. It's about God and what He did and will do. It's about Jesus. always Jesus. If He loved you enough to save you, you should love someone enough to share that salvation with them.
Shake us up, Lord!
We have an opportunity. An amazing opportunity to share this same love with the world. Let's do it. Not by trying to act perfect or like we have all the answers but by being honest. By being ourselves. By taking the time and praying for the courage to stop and say to someone. "God loves you, no strings attached. And He wants you to be saved." It's hard because so often we feel like sharing the Gospel will end in social suicide. If we tell someone they are sinful and need a Savior, it might make them not want to be our friend. But what is more important, having a friend or someone's eternal destiny? If you think of them as your friend, how much do you love them really if you don't want to share Jesus with them because you are afraid it will make you uncool? I mean, really.
It may be that by sharing the Gospel with someone you will be rejected by them. Being a Christian in a bold way may make you some enemies. But we still meed to do it. Jesus will give you the courage and the boldness to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done. Because you never know. Maybe that person won't reject you. Maybe they will accept what you have to say. Maybe they are secretly looking for Jesus and you don't know it. The point is, you still have to try.
Even if you don't see it now, you never know what seeds you will plant to be used to God's glory. The sower threw the seeds everywhere. He didn't look for the fertile soil and then carefully plant the seeds. The seeds fell everywhere and as a result, it fell on the fertile soil. If he had been too afraid of wasting seed that he didn't plant at all, he would have never gotten a crop.
It's not about us and our social comfort. It's about God and what He did and will do. It's about Jesus. always Jesus. If He loved you enough to save you, you should love someone enough to share that salvation with them.
Shake us up, Lord!
