Look At All The Dieing People!

11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
Proverb 22:11

So how much does someone try to save another who is going to his own death?  How much effort should you put in to stopping someone who does not care enough for themselves that they would allow their actions to kill them?  Do you care enough for another to be involved if needed?  Do you turn and walk away from a child in need?  If death is apperent then we should do all that we can to intercede.  Is that not the worlds standard, we call those that do Hero's.

Yet as Christians we walk by everyday without a word to those who walk to their death.  I do it a thousand times a day, go by as someone displays their worldly actions and attitude without any thought as to the consiquence.  We christians, outside of church become very selective as to the times and place that we speak the Lords name as wwe are afraid of the consequence.  But a drowning baby, we would risk our own lives for.  This life, the next life.

Rescue those that are being taken to death.  Rescue them, most of the time I wont even speak to them.  Most of the time they pass by with smiles on their faces as they blindly live death until death and I offer them nothing.  No way out of where they are, no way past the end that is always near.  Maybe the easy save, the wife who is being left by her husband or the drunk that is trying to get sober, but never the brother who has it all or the father who is a good man.  Those saves involve risk to ourselves and our weak faith holds us back.

Hold back those that are stumbling to the slaughter.  We are to be active and engauged with those that will perish.  We are to share our lives with them, be close with them and in the end sacrifice ourselves so that they may live.  Remove the value that may be on the need of exceptance and see that the saving faith in Jesus Christ is an even more precious gift to them. Ultimately your love will bare you through the love of Christ that you shpow to those who otherwise will be dead.

It is tough for us to think past what is right here at hand, to see eternity when all we are shown is this world.  We must trust the Word of God and the fullfillment of that Word in Jesus Christ.  We must live as if we will not die and allow that faith to be our motivation to save all that are around us.  Our wittness should not be that in our liftime we gave the love of Jesus Christ to one or two, but that we gave it to every man and woman that we have ever known.  What they do with that is in their hands, that you were obediant is in your, it is in mine.

See each person today as potentially not having another chance to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  Carry today a true Christian perspective that at any moment every person that you see could be taking their last step and standing at judgement.  That if they do not know Jesus in thier heart they will suffer eternal seperation.  Then see if you can in any way rescue them with a Word, or hold them back from slaughter by your love.  Dont let them just walk into death.

Lord Jesus, you saved me from my death. You lifted me from my enemies.  You brought me from deep waters onto dry land, because you delighted in me.  May I live that know shall perish either.  May I be obediant and forsake this world and give saving knowledge to all those who walk blindly to eternal death.  Give me the courage.  Amen.