Tonight, a good friend of mine is walking in the trials of the facts of Life and Death. I will not expand on that events of tonight but I will attempt to express the thoughts, however confusing they are, in this writing. I have been praying for hours and still I am confused but all I know is that Death is a very very real thing, the fact of death is overlooked almost every hour of my day. If I actually believed that when people who do not know Christ die the are forever separated from him, then I think I would act differently. If I actually understood the bible and the facts that are within then I would treat those around me differently. I have a feeling I would not worry about school, relationships, my future, money, ect. If I even partially understood the fact that billions of people who die that never even heard the saving name of Jesus. How can I be so selfish to draw back from conversations with international students and refrain from expressing how much Jesus has made my life new! How can I settle for simply a good worship service when I know that my fellow students are going back into countries that missionaries die to enter.
My attempt in processing all of this through on paper is not to guilt myself into loving people for Christ, but rather revealing the Full truth of the Gospel that Christ in his amazing love came to eradicate death! The kingdom of heaven has no death, no decay, no murder, no disease! We have been praying for a whole bunch of years for "your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven", but do we live as if we desire to see the truths of heaven become the truths of Earth. The devil has come to kill, steal and destroy but God came to earth in flesh to bring life and life at its fullest! Why do I live in such a way that proves that I do not actually believe what I just wrote? Why does the church play around with services and programs when its purpose is to be the catalyst by which the life of Christ is spread, where it advances fully in the power of the Holy Spirit to force out all death! It seems like tonight I have more questions than answers therefore I will take more time with the Father to ask what truth he desires to speak into an otherwise bleak night!
People are dying and we are simply watching!
Massive Truth that I have been meditation on the last few weeks...
Matt 6:33 - Seek first the Kingdom and his righteousness and all else will be added!
I do not understand much but all I know is my Savior and learning day by day what it looks like to walk with him!
Paul Shackelford
-Written on Nexus 7, please excuse everything that doesn't make sense-