2 Corinthians 5:14 “For Christ’s love compels me…”
We are called to share our hope in Christ with the lost, and as stated above, love is to be the motivating force behind our willingness to step out of our comfort zones. Below is a challenging clarion call to get involved, called ‘If’, by J. Wilbur Chapman:
“If today is the day of salvation, if tomorrow may never come and if life is equally uncertain, how can we eat, drink and be merry when those who live with us, work with us, walk with us and love us are unprepared for eternity because they are unprepared for time?
If they who reject Christ are in danger, is it not strange that we, who are so sympathetic when the difficulties are physical or temporal, should apparently be so devoid of interest as to allow our friends and neighbours and kindred to come into our lives and pass out again without a word of invitation to accept Christ, to say nothing of sounding a note of warning because for their peril?
If Jesus called his disciples to be fishers of men, who gave the right to be satisfied with making fishing tackle or pointing the way to the fishing banks instead of going ourselves to cast out the net until it be filled?
If I am to stand at the judgement seat of Christ to render an account for the deeds done in the Body, what shall I say to Him if my children are missing, if my friends are not saved or if my employer or employee should miss the way because I have been faithless?
If I wish to be approved at the last, then let me remember that no intellectual superiority, no eloquence in preaching, no absorption in business, no shrinking temperament, no spirit of timidity can take the place of or be an excuse for my not making an honest, sincere, prayerful effort to win others to Christ.”
Lord, I choose to get involved, not out of guilt but out of gratitude. Use me today for your glory. Amen!
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