People NEED The LORD!

"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." - Matthew 9:36

Tonight at work the Lord used an opportunity to bring me to a silence of heart and an overwhelming sense of guilt and inadaquacy before the Lord...

As I was working tonight an older gentleman who also works at Home Depot approached me and we started talking about morality issues. After a bit of a discussion he made known to me that he believed in a "higher power" and that we possess a "conscience" but he believed we are free to follow our "pleasures" in this life... And everyone is entitled to pursue their own "purpose." Upon asking him if he believed that at the end of our lives we will bear consequences to the lives we lead, he fully agreed. The part that broke my heart was his concluding statement... He said that nothing in this life is known, and we have no way to find it out until we die; so he has decided to wait until then to see what the "truth" is. { Does that hit you as hard as it hit me?}

This man has decided to wait upon death to discover truth! But friends by then it is too late! The scales of judgement and the eternal wrath of an angry God will have been established. There is no going back once death has consumed our souls. And after death....judgement.

"And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ... will appear a second time... to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." - Hebrews 9:27-28

Immediately after talking to him, my heart was in pieces. How could I being a professing follower of Christ live my life on daily basis without thinking of the men and women like this all around me? How have Christians fallen so far away from our original purpose? How many times in a day does my heart scream to tell the gospel to the dying world around me? How often do I BEG and BEG and BEG the LORD to open the eyes and hearts of the world to recieve his love and turn from their wicked way and attain SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! I DON'T! Oh Father forgive me... and forgive your church. By our silence Father, we disobey you and we allow the people of this world to enter into your eternal wrath and judgement where there is great and endless weeping and nashing of teeth, a place of eternal fire...

I pray that the Lord will change our hearts... Change our hearts and lives Lord, to be for one purpose and one purpose only. TO KNOW THE LORD, AND TO MAKE HIM KNOWN AMONG THE EARTH!!!!

On my way home from work the words of this song played over and over in my mind...

Everyday they pass me by,
I can see it in their eyes.
Empty people filled with care,
Headed who knows where?

On they go through private pain,
Living fear to fear.
Laughter hides their silent cries,
Only Jesus hears.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize, people need the Lord?

We are called to take His light
To a world where wrong seems right.
What could be too great a cost
For sharing Life with one who's lost?
Through His love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear.
They must hear the Words of Life
Only we can share.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize that we must give our lives,
For people need the Lord.