“For the SON of MAN is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10).
Not to boast but I have been holding Bible reading/study with my friend Alden (the guy in the first picture above) by the good LORD GOD’s in CHRIST JESUS, and he has his friends come over which gives me the chance to share the gospel to them. But these guys are exactly the perfect kind. I know that not all of us are exactly the same, but they seem to have one thing in common (like all of us), and that is they have their vices (like drinking and talking at the same time). Anyway, I do have my own vice (like watching what I eat – I watch it and I eat it!) But seriously, I tend to eat too much.
The thing is, I watch these guys, even my friend, Alden, and I can not help but notice how they (including myself) to cling to their (me too) self-reliance on handling our lives, thinking that we can take care of ourselves in regards to our vices. Like one of my friend who is also Alden’s friend, Romey, who keeps telling me that he doesn’t drink that much; not like the other guys who can’t handle themselves when they get inebriated. But there is this one guy that I so feel so sorry for. This guy is an older guy, small in stature, and from what I was told, was uneducated. My two friends, Alden and Romey, are all older and are up in years. And so is that guy (who is said to be unread and unwrite). You can tell by the appearance of the guy (just like myself). By the way, he’s the guy at the topmost picture with the baseball cap. And looking back from hindsight, I see the sovereign hand of GOD that have me share the gospel to these guys. I sympathize with their plight because I was in their shoes before. I was a child of the wicked one, doing what he wanted me to do (rebelling against my CREATOR, REDEEMER, and SAVIOUR/MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST). “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” (John 8:44). I was lost, and doing what the evil wanted me to do, and will eventually lead to my destruction; and do not even know that I am sinning against GOD. “All we sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on HIM (the LORD JESUS) the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6).
Just like what the old hymnist, William Newell wrote: Years I spent in vanity and pride caring not my LORD was crucified. Knowing not it was for me HE died, at Calvary. Mercy there was great and grace was free. Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty, at Calvary.
I am witnessing regularly their slow but certain demise, and they have little or no idea that they are heading for destruction (even the lake of fire), and don’t even realize it — deceived and don’t know it. “For all have sinned have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD.” (Romans 3:23). And the sad thing is, we are never promised tomorrow! Today is all you have.
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