There has been one question that the LORD has put in my mind lately that I’ve been wrestling with and have been challenged by.
“If I was a non-Christian, would anyone I know share the gospel with me?”
In other words, do I have friends who are committed to Jesus and his mission of preaching the gospel and making disciples, who are filled with the Holy Spirit and his ceaseless passion to see lost people be saved? Do I have friends who are bold, not living in timidity? Do I have friends who would risk feeling awkward around me, and possibly being shunned by my response to their preaching?
(The questions are rhetorical, obviously.. Praise God because I believe I do have friends who would preach to me. The questions are more so directed at myself to feel, again for a brief moment, the despair I had when I was not in Christ.)
I think you get the point.
God has been wrecking me with his gospel and my need to carry it with me always–freely and boldly sharing it with any inquirers, risking the respect from people who I hold ever so dear–for his glory.
“LORD, remove from me my idol of caring too much about what others think of me and not enough about what you think of me.”
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