Yesterday we went to church and heard Don Piper, the author of "90 Minutes in Heaven" speak. This book was extremely touching to me as I read it after losing Emma. It was so comforting to read about what he heard and saw when he entered Heaven's gates and knowing that Emma is in such a grand and wonderful place. As he spoke yesterday I began to think about how we walk through life with our earthly glasses and not our heavenly glasses. When we see and meet people we should be so burdened about their eternal life that we have to share the gift of salvation.
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After services we went to Bible Study Class and our lesson was on the disciple John. One of the characteristics of John was his "boldness" for Christ and we began to talk and reflect in our own lives about whether or not we have that same "boldness" for Christ that John had.
How many times have you heard God speaking to you to witness to someone or encourage someone and you did it and got a positive result. If you haven't you should try it! There have been times I have felt lead to ask someone if I could pray for them or invite them to church and I was so convicted I couldn't resist. When I did it, God never left me or made a mockery out of me because HE was instucting me to do it. Afterwords, my faith in Christ grew stronger and the next time I was convicted to speak out to someone or do something for Christ that was a little out of my comfort zone it wasn't nearly as difficult because my faith in Christ was stronger. Each time you do it it becomes a little easier and you begin to gain that "boldness" that James and John had for the Lord.
I am a Christian today because I had two loving parents who didn't see me as only a cute lil' blonde headed, blue eyed girl but as a child that was born into sin and headed for an eternity without Christ if they didn't introduce Him to me. Wow! What a responsibility as parents we have to raise our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Are you doing that? Do you realize that you will one day stand before the Lord and give an account for how your children were raised. If God has so blessed you with the miracle of a child why would you not want to introduce them to their Creator? Thankfully for Scott and I, it is easy because we were both raised in church and our Saturday night plans are dictated by having to get up early for church on Sunday. We don't discuss whether or not we are going or "if" we are going to go and now it is rewarding to see that it has become a part of life for Lane and he looks forward to going to church on Sundays and learning about Jesus. Since the day him and Bella were born on Sundays they are in church. We are the parents of 3 children, 2 on earth and 1 in heaven and one day I want our family to ALL be in heaven together and for that reason alone I will continue to pray that one day I will have the opportunity to lead them to the Lord and our family will be eternally together. Do you have that? I pray you do and if you don't, I challenge you to be "bold" in Christ and dedicate your Sundays to taking your children to church and introducing them to a friend that will never leave them nor forsake them and change their lives for ever.
Why am I doing this post today? I woke up this morning with it heavy on my heart to do so and I know that I am taking on that challenge today to be BOLD for Christ and maybe someone somewhere will read this and try it and strengthen their faith in HIM!
4 comments:
You are so right, Kari. We should indeed be bold in our faith and not ashamed of our Lord and Savior. I thank the Lord everyday that you and Scott are raising your family in church, serving the Lord in all things.
You are such an inspiration! Love you!
Exactly! I love this post! It is often hard to be 'bold' in Christ...I will certainly try to be more 'bold'! :) Love you
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