I couldn't get to sleep last night. I was really upset about the death of the Crocodile Hunter! I was thinking about his wife and his daughter and son, and how they are going to have to figure out how to exist without their husband and father. Which made me think of those bodies of the people they found in Bagdad yesterday, dumped across the city. How those people have names, and families that will miss them too. Which brought me to thinking of a story I kept hearing about on the news, about the family who was killed by fire in Chicago, because they were too poor to afford electricity, so they were using candles to see.
Man, life is short, and unpredicatable. Did any of these people know that yesterday was the last day they got to take a breath? Which made me think...did any of these people know Jesus? Everyone keeps living, even after they die. Where are these people now? I never thought about the Crocodile Hunter's eternity before, until it's too late?
You know, if I'm going to be honest, I get nervous to talk to people one-on-one about eternity and salvation. I can blab about Jesus all day long on Christian radio, but when it comes to the few people I know who don't have a relationship with Jesus, I worry too much about what they are going to think about me to bring it up, or worry I will say the wrong thing. Or, in the case of my college roomate, I talked to her about it when we were freshman, she didn't want to have anything to do with it, so I didn't mention it again. She almost died a year ago on an operating table...almost died!
I think that if I care enough about these people, or people in general, I am just going to have to get over myself! I often think that I'm not smart enough to answer their questions, but it's the Holy Spirit's job to move in them anyway, not my own. So that excuse doesn't hold much water. In light of eternity, does it really matter if I look like a fool? Oh, that I would become a fool for Christ! That the burden for those that don't know Him would be stronger than my insecurities! Because eternity is a really, really long time to live without Jesus. And I really don't know what Steve Irwin believed, but with as much as he loved the natural world, and its creatures, wouldn't he just love the heavenly one?
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Ceci
4 comments:
How sad about Steve Irwin.
Your post has touched me, as I too need to talk more about salvation to others. I just need to get over "myself" and just do it! Cause He is a truely an awesome God!
Have a blessed day.
All you need to do is show people love you do that and they will see Jesus in you. Jesus will do the rest. We don't need to throw Jesus down people's throat esepecially by saying do you want to go to heaven or hell that's only going to make people not be around you. People don't want to be preached to just share your testimony with them ot what God did for you that's what's going to draw them to know who this Jesus is. Not by saying hey if you don't except Jesus your going to hell. Remember just be gently and show nothing but Love because that's who God is LOVE!!!
I think about this often. In the neighborhood we live in, most are not saved and it breaks my heart. Our neighbors are great people and I not only want to see them in heaven someday but I want to see them start living their lives with the purpose and destiny God has for them. When our daughter got sick and was in the hospital 3 months and continues to have treatments and sometimes struggle, it is hard on us but it offers such an oppertunity for people to see Christ. They see we have this peace that really does pass all understanding and they ask us about it. They see in our everyday life that we could not live without God. Many of our neighbors and friends have come to Christ through this situation and I am just in awe how awesome God is. He will give you the oppertunity you just have to obey. I too was always someone who didn't want to turn people off or have them think I was weird but when this happened with our daughter, my prayer was always "please God, just don't let this be for nothing" and we committed to never let an oppertunity go by to testify of God's goodness through our lives.
How interesting that I am reading your post. One of my co-workers recently committed suicide and I am having a really tough time with it. She was only 19, and had a lot to live for. I feel guilty about not have shared with her about being saved and looking forward to a wonderful home in heaven some day where the heartaches of this world are so far away. Thanks Ceci for your honest post!
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