BECAUSE OF YOU

Luke 10:2 - "The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few...".
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On that time that you are facing the Lord in the afterlife, and He asked you this question, "Child, how many souls are now in heaven because of you?", then how will you respond?  One, two, or you do not know?

Do not worry.  It is really hard to tell or what to say.  That question is really for God to understand one thing - "how did you really live your life here in earth?"

Was it a life of sinfulness, immorality, pride, and unending denial of the Lord as your God?  Do you spend more on justifying sin as part of being alive?  Do you believe that if other people can commit sin and still be happy, then why can't I do the same?

And as you deny the reality of sin in your life, you become addicted to it and don't recognize it anymore as the cause of your total detachment from God.  And worse even, you invite other people to join you in this little world of sinfulness, making them the same as you.

How about doing the other way?  Living a life in holiness.  Yes, it is hard.  Yes, it is full of sacrifices.  Yes, it is very difficult to do.  But, Jesus had not promised it to be easy.  It is carrying your own cross and following Him through the narrow path.

But the rewards are great.  If it means joining Him in the eternal life of joy and blessings, wouldn't you do it.  On the average, a seventy year life of sacrifice here on earth that leads to eternal life in Heaven - isn't that a good deal?

I don't know about you.  But for me, I want that life of joy, peace, and being blessed.  Please like it, too.  Ask God now to give you the strength to finally walk with Him.  Accept Him as your Lord and Savior now, and bring glory to His own name as you share Him with others.

And so when God ask you how many are in heaven because of you, your response will be - "Honestly, Lord, I don't know the exact number because there are too many of them".

+ Let us pray:  Almighty Father, make me an instrument of Your love and peace.  Let me share your blessings with others, so they may also get to know You, more and more.  I am a sinner just like them, but that should not hinder me from bringing them to You.  My blindness is their blindness, but my heart continues to beat in consonance with Your heart, as I follow You in eternity.  Amen +