One of the hardest things about being a Christian is to share the good news about Jesus with the people in our lives. We shrink back from it because we are afraid of rejection..or maybe we aren't that emotionally close with someone in our lives and talking about where they are spiritually is deeper and closer than we want to be or go with them....it all points back to us focusing on ourselves and our own discomfort.
But Jesus wants us to fix our gaze on Him and not look at anything else. He wants to tear down the walls in our lives and He wants us to share our relationship with Him with others so that they will believe and be saved!! Lord, please give me boldness with my dear neighbors...people who you love and died for and need your grace in their lives!
Here's the words to another Casting Crowns song that resonates in my heart today:
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HERE I GO AGAIN
Father, hear my prayer
I need the perfect words
Words that he will hear
And know they're straight from You
I don't know what to say
I only know it hurts
To see my only friend slowly fade away
So maybe this time I'll speak the words of life
With Your fire in my eyes
But that old familiar fear is tearing at my words
What am I so afraid of?
'Cause here I go again
Talkin' bout the rain
And mulling over things that won't live past today
And as I dance around the truth
Time is not his friend
This might be the last chance to tell him that
You love him
But here I go again, here I go again
Lord, You love him so, You gave Your only Son
If he will just believe; he will never die
But how then will he know what he has never heard
Lord he has never seen mirrored in my life............
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Lord, give me the grace to live for you today...to burn brightly for you and please burn away anything in me that is not of you--please crucify my flesh--as painful as it is--please remove it.
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