Read
Romans 15:14-22
As our friends or colleagues are speaking about life, do we
tell them what we have heard from God and what we have read in the Bible? When
someone shares their struggles with us, do we share with them the strength to
persevere that is offered through Jesus Christ?
Salvation is like this: imagine a friend is living on the street –
some here have been there. Our friend is very poor and suffering from various
illnesses, struggles and the most painful of lives thinking he is alone. Now,
imagine that you know his father. Imagine you know that his father wants your
friend to come home and live with him because his father is very well off and
in his father’s house there are many rooms (John 14:2). Imagine you also know
his father’s first born son. Imagine that the older son, knowing his homeless
brother is sick and dying, told you to invite his brother home and imagine you
don’t and your friend dies alone and sick. Imagine you don’t share this
information because you are afraid. Imagine you don’t share this information
because you are ashamed. Imagine if every time you see your friend it becomes
more and more difficult to share the good news of his father who loves him
because you are too embarrassed to admit you hadn’t told him sooner. Imagine if
he suffers and dies and you don’t remind him on every possible occasion that
there is another way: he can turn to his father and live out his days in the
comfort of his father’s love. If that happens, what kind of friend are you?
What kind of a friend am I?
Today and from this day forward let us point our friends to the Good
News that they can live out the sorrows, joys, tragedies and triumphs in the
full comfort and support of our father’s house.
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