Eternity awaits

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We’ve been “living in Laodicea”, lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living. The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.

Leonard Ravenhill

There’s one thing that matters in this life and it’s this, the death and resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus Christ and mens’ response to it.

James Thompson

It often occurs to me how flimsily I take for granted that men are lost. Outside of the rescuing cross of Jesus Christ all men everywhere and at everytime are lost in their sin without hope in the God that bought them.

So then we who have this message – ought we not to take every last breath every last opportunity to share this phenomenal news. I use phenomenal – probably the best word I could think of – but even this 4 syllalble word fails to even hit the foothills of the mountain that is this great salvation of which we partake in.

I have had two close deaths this year, and it’s at these times that I see all the more the need and necessity to share this news that men and women might have a hope in God and a life with him both now and forever.

This life is temporal and in comparison to eternity matters for nothing, save this, that we honour God and spread the news of the increase of his Kingdom.

No we don’t all go off to the Andes, no we don’t all take part in street preaching – but we do all work somewhere, we do all live somewhere, we all have neighbours, we all have uni mates, school mates, work mates. At the end of the day we all know somebody who doesn’t know the God who created them.

P