Count Your Blessings
I was coming back from the post office the other day when I ran across an older man I had met at the wedding. He invited me to sit down at the cafe and we sat and talked for an hour or so. I got to share the gospel with him, starting from Adam and Eve and ending with Jesus. He listened politely and asked some good questions, and then we left.
This guy is at least 60 years old, and has heard lies about God and about salvation all his life. One day some 24-year-old foreign kid (me) comes up and tells him something different, and he's supposed to believe it?
God is sovereign (Eph 1:11), and He does whatever He wants (Psalm 135:6), and all that He does is good (Psalm 119:68). I fear for the man I sat with and talked to. Will he hear truth again? Was that his only shot? If that was his only shot, it wasn't much of one if you ask me.
How many times have we heard the gospel? How many times have we heard truth? I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing this guy heard nothing until age 60 when some foreign kid talked to him once. Who knows if he'll ever hear again.
I'm glad I'm not him.
It's like the story our pastor told last week after getting back from Japan. He was sharing the Gospel with two men, explaining why we needed a substitute sacrifice and how that was accomplished in CJ. Then he explained the crucifixion, death and burial, and then resurrection.
He didn't plan on stopping there, after all there's so much more. But at that point the English speaking man went, "Wow!" He then translated for his friend who said, "Wow!"
It's kind of the reverse of your story. We have heard the Word so much, even unbelievers over here don't go "Wow!" at the prospect of the resurrection anymore. But these two had never heard, and it blew them away! And yes, they joined the family that day.
KnK
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