May your roots go down into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Woud you?
Laying in bed this morning I was thinking about people I love who dont believe in God. People who have not yet given their life to Christ. I know as of right now they will not leave this planet and go to heaven. While I was laying there I thought would I die for them to believe. If I had to go through something horrible like cancer or just the simple fact of trading in my life for their chance to believe would I do it. Seems like an easy question but if I am really honest it makes me sit and think. I love these people so much and because of that I want to say yes I would do that. I want to say I would do whatever it takes to make them believe and accept. But then I think about what I would go through if I had to die or have cancer. Not seeing my kids grow up, going through chemo or all the pain you are in, losing the time with people I love, leaving Bryan behind, not being about to do things in life I still want to experience. So Im thinking and praying for God to work in me and teach me what I need to learn. To help me with what it means to lay it all down to help someone else experience what I have with Jesus. From the littlest thing of putting others before myself to the biggest thing of giving up my life. And who better to teach me this then Jesus who did it for me.
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Great post. I've been thinking through the same stuff. I'm realizing I'm kinda lazy and selfish about showing others God's love, and I don't like that! I'll be praying for you and you pray for me!
ReplyDeletei'm sort of going thru a little of this too Terra - pretty timely post. I finished reading A Whole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns and I'm feeling convicted. If i'm honest with myself no, i would not give up my own life. I wish my thinking were that eternal, but i live so much for this world that i dont think i would :( sad to admit.
ReplyDeleteNumero uno: You do not know that they are not going to heaven. You don't have the power of judgement and do not know God's ways. Only he does.
ReplyDeleteYou are passionate about those whom you care for, but no one, even God asks us to sacrafice all for others. His son did that for us.
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ReplyDeleteI believe what you say is right but at the same time also wrong. God is working in those people Im thinking about and yes I never know where their hearts may truly lay. When they say that there is no God though I worry and want God to use me to speak to them. And Jesus did sacrifice all for us. He did all we need to be set free from our sins and live with Him for eternity. He also ask us to be more like him and not of the world. He wants us to grow more like Him every day. And in that way I think I need to maybe not give up my life like He did but begin to sacrifice some things that I think are more important then helping someone find Christ.
But yes I also agree with you :)
I say both of you have very good points and I see where your both coming from. Its true what Casey says about judgement day and eternity and yes Jesus did lay down his life so we don't have too. I also think I see what Terra is trying to say and this is what I think, God isn't going to ask you to lay down your life for another physically but if I'm right I think your trying to say by sacrificing more of what your flesh wants you would in turn become more like Jesus therefore showing people at a greater level who Jesus really is therefore giving non believers a better shot at seeing Christ in you and being saved. Is this right?? The really crappy thing is we can't save these people that we love so much all we can do is look to God and his holy spirit will work through us and on them.
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