As Christians, we know what we know and because of that knowledge we live in the comfort of a certain future. But what if we didn't. What if we didn't know that we were saved. What if we didn't know our God's heart toward us. What if we had never heard with understanding, the word of our Father God or had any knowledge that the stain of our past and the horrific failures of our lives could be removed from our life's record. What if we didn't know we could be free?
Imagine that we lived every day without true hope or meaningful purpose. Imagine living a life without direction and guidance that brought peace or relief from the evil that exists in the world. Each day would be spent seeking to satisfy needs that we couldn't even begin to understand. Moving from one thing to the next, trying anything to fill the void that seems impossible to fill. Living to find that each thing that we struggled so hard to either attain or obtain only left us emptier still. No matter what we imagined in the beginning, we would find that in the end, those things never bring the deep satisfaction of that one unknown thing that remained elusive to us no matter how hard we tried. Each of these things having the possibility of bringing some measure of momentary relief, but also the ability to leave us even further broken and maimed until life becomes a cycle of nothing but disappointment, pain and misery.
The world is full of broken people with broken hearts. People searching for worldly causes to hold as their own in place of the one true purpose for their lives that our God has given for our creation. But the truth is that they were created with the same loving purpose that you and I were created with. The Fathers heart envisioned with great hope what each one could become in His kingdom at the moment He created them. It was with the very same great fatherly hope that He held for each one of us at the moment He breathed life into us. It was His intention that each and every one would have the opportunity to be saved and that each one would come to know that there was hope and purpose for their lives. It's His desire that each one would have the same healing, freedom,opportunity and knowledge of all that He offers to all of His children with the deepest loving heart of a father.
It didn't occur to me until recently that our God made it possible for each of us to become heroes. But in His great and perfect plan, I've come realize that He made room for each of us to show the depth of our love for Him by showing our love for what He loves. His love for the broken and dysfunctional human beings on this planet is no less than His love for each of us that have the redemption, comfort and safety that we have in relationship with Him. In the world, when one saves the life of another, they're considered a hero. These heroes are only saving mortal lives that will eventually perish with time. But if we can bring another to understanding their need for, and the availability of redemption, then have we not been a party to saving their eternal life thereby becoming hero to our brother?
I believe that if we were to see the unsaved as our God sees them, that we'd see them as our Father's lost children stumbling in the darkness alongside the edge of eternal disaster about to perish falling into the fires of hell. Children like us and just as important to His heart. Do we not care that our brother perishes? Do we not care that the heart of our father will be broken at their loss? How much do we love Him? And if we love Him, do we not love what he loves? Are we not told to love our brother, our neighbor and even our enemies? What does it mean to love them? Do we love them enough to save their lives? Do we love our Father enough to save what He created with a desire to cherish as His own? Will our Father hold us accountable for watching our brother perish without letting him know what he could have been? Imagine the urgency of our Father's heart for the unsaved that will die unless we are moved from our comfort zones to bring them into the same safety of our Father's arms that we enjoy.
Lord, let us be moved by the urgency of your heart and perspective to bring the offer of salvation to all you have created. Give us revelation to understand that death eternal is so exceedingly more horrible than the death men fear in this life.Without hesitation, let us be moved from complacency to feel the urgency of those who perish and become lost to your heart. Stir us Lord to imagine the urgency...
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