Reaching Out

I often spend time meditating on what life is and how I can change it.

Yesterday, I spent 14 hours of physical work. Lifting, shoving, moving enough to fill a 26 ' truck, a 14' truck and a 1' trailer. I was tired (This is really pretty normal...). And someone asked me if it is worth it?

Yesterday, I spent the majority of the day with two unsaved individuals. One thinks he knows the Creator and the other thinks he doesn't. I was able to spend two hours in conversation with the doubter as he asked question after question about God. Questions like why God let's the killer go free and the victim die, questions about abortion and marriage. I guess if I die in the process( I come home in pain every day lately.) of sharing the gospel it is worth it. The other night once again I was convicted about the Christian who strives for a God who gives all and often doesn't make the effort to share Him.

For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

Have you ever thought about this scripture? So many suggest that only those that have will have abundance and those that don't have won't. So, how did those who have get? Somewhere they must have received. How did they receive? And what can you take away from one that does not have?

To have because one that doesn't have all will be taken away, there must be a way. And so the gift of freedom and abundance can only be the result of reaching one's hand forth. And another reaching out.

As I spent time with my friend(Who by the way is coarse and vulgar and all the things we in the church walk away from-unless we are doing it...) I realized once again another heart that is looking. Seeking the life of God. This man has invited me and my wife over for dinner. With his girlfriend(He is married.).

How do we reach the lost unless we stretch forth what we have? I am not very comfortable in the church as a rule. Too many rules. I could spend my time behind closed doors and miss what people are saying, what they are doing. I don't think I can do that.

Somehow we must reach these people. Somehow we must get out of comfort zone and give what they don't have to them, so that they might have the opportunity for abundance as well.

Blessings,
lee

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