| Sharing your Faith The One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven |
| We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. One day we will each go one-on-one with God and stand before His throne. Can you imagine that? Do you think it will matter on that day whether you boldly shared your faith with unbelievers, whether you told a very lost and dying world about the only answer for a soul - Jesus? Yes, it will. It will matter whether you shared the most precious thing you have with everyone you could. When I look at Jesus, I think it will occur to me that He is more real than I ever imagined. I will be struck by how sinful and impure I am in front of Total Holiness. It will amaze me how beautiful heaven is, well beyond what I could have ever dreamed. But then I think it will hit me that I’ll wish I had shared Him a whole lot more than I ever did on earth. We should give ourselves totally to reaching the lost no matter what the cost, to not look back but to boldly speak out for our Lord. Romans 10:13-15 says, “Whoever calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.” How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? People will not believe in Jesus and call upon Him for their salvation unless they hear about what He has done for them. And how can they hear unless each Christian takes the great name of Jesus to every person possible? We can go out with confidence, boldness, and the love of Jesus Christ to reach those who are lost. |
| Every time you step out of your comfort zone, you step right into God’s comfort zone. When we step out in faith and boldly share the good news of Jesus Christ with all the love we can, people will begin to see Jesus through our lives. God has placed an awareness of eternity in the heart of every man and woman. No matter how deep people may push it down, it is still there. There is one thing you cannot do in heaven that you can do on earth. You can worship God in heaven. You can praise God in heaven. You can sing songs to God in heaven. You can learn God’s world in heaven. But the one thing you cannot do in heaven is share your faith with a nonbeliever. Do you realize that when you take your last breath, you will never again be able to talk with a lost person? Since that is true, shouldn’t it be a priority of your life to reach out to all the lost people on earth while you can? If you do something often enough you get pretty good at it. So, if we can’t witness in heaven and can witness only on earth, what is the only way we will ever become good at it? Practice. Practice. Practice. Witnessing is a learned talent. All we have to do is get into the conversation and watch it go from there. A question as simple as, “When you die what do you think is on the other side?” can open the door. Jesus says in Luke 12:12, “The Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” The Holy Spirit is very faithful to take us all the way through a conversation and to give us plenty of things to say. All we must do is get in “that very hour.” Let the Lord take you into those opportunities, and He will show you how faithful He really is. |
| ~ Adapted from the book, "One Thing You Can't Do In Heaven ~ by Mark Cahill |