Urgent gospel

We will never know if it is God's time until we offer our time to Him. It is easy to say that the world is in ruins, but difficult to put on the construction suit to rebuild it. The gospel is the best clothing, the best tool, the best brick. I see him frequently on my missionary journeys. Idolaters who surrender to Christ by the power of the Spirit, adulterers who rebuild their marriages, atheists who embrace the faith. The gospel is the power of God (Ro 1.16), not our power. Our duty is to preach it. The preaching has its problem and it is that we are not consistent with the faith that we say we have. Many say they have a passion for the lost, but that is not enough. Passion is nothing if it is not put into practice, if it is not translated into compassion and ultimately into action. It is a matter of practical faith.

The first dilemma of the Christian is faith. The first question of a Christian who disposes his heart to serve God is: -Lord, what do you want from me? How do you want to use me? - You can be sure that God will be delighted to answer you and will take care of redeeming the time you need to serve Him, fix the agendas you have conceived and put a flood of joys in your heart. God has a sown field around you, but He is in need of laborers who hold the Bible in one hand and the plow in the other to do the harvest. Faith and practice; in that order.

Someone said that we are agents of hope in a postmodern society. Other than "hope is the oxygen of the soul." We know what we are, but we don't practice it; we have the best and we don't share it. Imagine yourself surrounded by people dying of hunger and you in the middle of them consciously carrying the best food for their empty stomachs; but you are immobile, passive, withdrawn, somewhat self-absorbed, as absent. If we do not believe that the gospel has power, we will be complicit in many deaths. This thought seems scary and exaggerated, but the gospel is clear and you need to understand this reality. A heart regenerated by the power of the gospel must be sensitive to helping God regenerate other hearts. Paul said: “… when I preach the gospel, I have nothing to be proud of, since I am under obligation to do so. Woe to me if I don't preach the gospel! " (1 Cor 9.16 NIV).

If we are truly "the people of God" we are committed to Him. Commitment is involvement. Saturate the world with the love and values of His Kingdom. To the extent that we do so, that we offer to God part of our time, we will not only grow more, but we will see more the glory of God in our Christian life. You have to believe that "... the one in you is more powerful than the one in the world." (1 Jn 4.4).

I have a great friend to whom I have spoken many times about Jesus, and although he claims to have (intellectual) faith and understands the message, he says that Christianity is not significant for these times because it is discredited because of many false “Christians who live on story". Although I know that God is working in his heart, I find it difficult to move him from intellectual faith to saving faith in Christ. I know it's up to the Holy Spirit, not mine. But his argument bothers me because I know it has a lot of truth to it. Christianity will be relevant in a society as we engage with integrity. And the gospel remains urgent, despite our passivity and our fears. You just have to get involved, beyond the commitment. Commitment without involvement is pure trova. The sense of this urgency fans the sense of duty and this feeling leads us to tell Jesus. -I want to go, I want to be where you are! -

I invite you to get on the gospel train; In the locomotive or in the last wagon, it is only your desire to oxygenate the souls of many with the hope (of Christ). Perhaps right now you are thinking of so many thirsty people who can quench their thirst with just one drop of living water. You have prayed for them, but now take a step of faith. Don't you see the angels already preparing the party from heaven?

God bless your Word!