Sometimes
we give ourselves too much credit. Have you ever felt like you weren't being
obedient when God asked you to do something?
Maybe he prompted you to invite someone to church who you met at the
grocery store, or maybe you felt like you were supposed to share the gospel
with someone with whom you work. We let
our fears or our insecurities or our pride keep us from sharing that which we
know we are supposed to share. And then,
we walk away feeling guilty because we could have made an impact on that
person’s life. We worry that they will
not know the love of Christ because we did not share with them. We are giving ourselves too much credit. Yes, we will have to answer for our lack of
obedience one day, but God will accomplish what He has set out to accomplish
regardless of our cooperation. But, oh
we will miss out on so much if we choose to turn the other way.
Every
day we are presented with opportunities to share the love of Christ. The question is: will we seize every
opportunity and allow them to make us more like Christ? Or, will we pass them up and miss out on the
blessing of following Him? God is bigger
than me, and He is bigger than you, and if we don’t obey Him, then He will find
someone else who will accomplish His task.
Matthew
25 offers a parable that Jesus shared.
Through this parable we see that Jesus expects us to be faithful to obey
Him. And if we don’t, we are the ones
who are missing out. By obeying Him, we
will gain so much. It might not be in
the form of money or fame or success, but it may be in peace and joy and
gratitude. But if we don’t obey, then
even what little we are clinging to will be taken from us:
