While Waiting

Somebody once said, about the employees who worked at the mint where they printed our money, that as long as these people see the money as paper and not as money, there won't be any problems. With Christianity and the fulfillment of the Great Commission, you can't do that.

At a quick glance this is just another post with pictures of people holding tracts: and that's where the trouble is. We tend to see "just people". We miss the real picture by a mile. These are souls. Souls that have eternal value; and if that word just passed by your eyes without worth, then we really do have a problem. 

Eternity.. An eternal soul.

See it yet? Do you still see plain people? Or people who were created in the image of God? Do you even think about what their soul is worth, leveled against your convenience? I always say that men won't come to God for fear that their sins would be brought out. I can also say professing Christians are afraid to make it their life's goal to share the Gospel openly because of the inconvenience and embarrassment it would bring. How do I dare say so? Because I did.

You would readily dash across the street to pull this young girl off the path of an incoming car, yet you won't bother to inconvenience yourself and pull her soul out of the path of the coming judgement to come, which is far worse than being run over by a car. But by Sunday, you'd be in church for attendance. I believe "Go and preach the Gospel to every creature," is the 11th commandment, and is actually another way of putting into words the second most greatest commandment, after loving God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

We would stop and stare at a dead body on the street. Someone who probably was in a vehicular accident. Feeling sorry for a bit perhaps? Can you imagine watching that soul burn in hell forever because you hid yourself instead and feared people's opinions more? What's the difference? The difference is you cannot help prevent the former, but you have every chance to prevent the latter.

No man on earth has ever impressed God. There will never be such a man. You don't have to do something outstandingly grand, you just need to obey. It can be something as simple as standing on a corner of the street, opening your bible, and reading from it. Are you ashamed? Are you aware of the consequences of feeling so? I tell you, every time I stand on the street, every single time, is always the first time. I am always terrified. But you know? You can only go as far as: standing there, and asking for the Father to allow you to honor his Son, then open your mouth.

God always provides the words for me, because I depend totally on him. He has never failed me, nor anyone who has wholly trusted on him. Courage is not being used to public oratories. Courage is simply obeying regardless.

Do you see a public market? Or do you see these faces as but a gallery of breathing pictures?

My college professor once told us, it was the devil who said, "don't do unto others what you don't want them to do unto you." and it was the Lord Jesus who said, "DO unto others, what you would want them to do unto you." Is not withholding the Gospel to the lost, evil? Aren't you in the same crowd of those who "don't do" by keeping silent? By burying the coin entrusted to you? Is proclaiming the Gospel to the lost good? Are you DOing? Whose voice are you following then, O, dear Christian?

The carnal man's sin is of commission.
The carnal Christian's sin is of omission.

Awake! O, sleeper! The fields are white for harvest!

Don't misconstrue this as an effort to magnify the action you see here. It is an act of privileged obedience. You'd be proud to be personally known by the President of your own country, do you hold your identity in Christ in the same light, if not higher? There is no higher honor in the entire cosmos than to hear the King of kings himself tell you, "Go. I myself am sending you."

You'd be a fool to turn it down; and sadly we are a nation of fools.