Comment: For a moment or two, lets think about the most
important decision a person can make in his or her lifetime. Now if you came up
with anything else besides the Gospel of God’s Son, you are missing the point.
Abiding in the darkness of a night can be pleasant for a season, but as you KNOW,
when the first light of dawn finally arrives it always brings a shout of joy because
the darkness fades and the new light of day begins. Those who sail the oceans
know this very well, I remember those days long past now, when standing the
early watch, that when the day began to dawn there was that pure sense of fresh
beginnings. Plans for the coming day began to take over and the past events of
the darkness faded away. The memories of the night never seem to measure up to
the light of a new day, those memories fade away like a fog when the morning
sun burns it away. Jesus spoke of night and day to His disciples, please read
John 11:9-10 and be of an understanding heart.
Devotional: Here is the rub. “But even if our gospel is
veiled (not visible), it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the
god of the age has blinded, (darkened) who do not believe, lest the LIGHT of
the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on
them. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4.” People who live in the darkness as revealed by the apostle
in these opening verses of chapter 4 of Second Corinthians are those who have
not received MERCY from God because they knowingly live in ‘darkness’.
The
apostle is writing to those of us who experience God’s Mercy, we knowingly will
never experience God’s Wrath, thus we should never lose heart. Having renounced
the hidden things of darkness (shame) we should cease walking in the craftiness
of our flesh and stop handling the Word of God in a deceitful manner. Now, you
say what? Far to often we fail to lead by (Example or Word) those who are in darkness
to the Light of the gospel. I hear as you do the testimonies of men and women
who fail to know the results of their feeble witness. When asked if those they
spoke to came to faith, the answer, more often than not is, “Well I don’t know?”
Some would argue that we do not need to know. If that is so, then why do the
ones asking, ASK?
Why then
do we see in the gospels and the book of Acts these witness accounts of one on
one results by Christ and His disciples saving ‘one soul’ or thousands in one
presentation of Gospel? The angels in heaven rejoice when a soul is saved by
grace, should we not also! I am as guilty as the next, in failing to complete
the message of the Gospel of Grace and Mercy, so the challenge is! “We are
living in the last days before the return of the LORD to remove His Church, and
we need to be ready to give an answer to those perishing in the darkness that
provide results, and we need to know the results of the answer we give.”
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