Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

       The harvest has not lessened.
     The unsaved are still desperately in need of rescue, and many, many only wait to hear the gospel. Recently I heard a deep and mature Christian tell how he grew up going to a church, but at the age of nineteen, had never heard the gospel.
     A neighbor invited him over one day and told him the story of salvation. When he then asked him if he wanted to meet Jesus, the young man said yes, and accepted Christ. He was stunned to find that a number of people he knew already knew about this precious truth, but had never told him.
     It seems to me that Christians often forget how lost the lost are.
     Black darkness.
     No hope.
     Sons of perdition.
     On the outside, because of grace, what men call the "human spirit" presses them on. It isn't the human spirit at all, but a momentum that God has created to expand time and allow choice.
     But on the inside, there is still a blindness that forces even those who seem so settled to grope incessantly. They are slaves to sin, and there is no resolution.
     And the lostness will turn into desperate suffering and endless torment in eternity.
     There is no in-between.
     At all.
     We may not tire and we must press into the things the Lord gives us to do. We must be alert and ready to say what must be said to allow those around us the opportunity to be rescued.
     We don't have to go out and embrace some new activity to find the lost - they are in front of us, behind us, and to the sides all the time. We need to reach out and make the tired and very heavy tongue form the words.
     We must pray about being ready and we must ask to see humanity as it really is.
     The world is in desperate need, and the one who seems to have it all together is in just as much need as the beggar in the gutter.
     I was unshackled because of prayer. Those who preached at me drove me away, B But those who loved me and were not ashamed of the Lord, allowed Him to win me through their imperfect lives and simple words.
     It doesn't take good answers or a collected front - it takes the Holy Spirit. He only needs an available mouth and an available life of one who loves God's Word and stands ready.
     
      

     
   
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