Will ALL of our loved ones get saved at the end of the Day?

Have you wondered if all your family members and friends will be saved? The very least, YOURSELF?? If you are born again, spirit-filled christian and you are still doubting your own salvation, speak to a pastor or leader near you!

I am not writing a sermon here. Haahaa! Sometimes, I also think who on earth is going to read all my blog here? But i guess i enjoy the tapping away on the keyboard to get my ideas across and express myself in a way that I can also understand myself better. Its liken to cruising on the highway, especially when you have nowhere to go... i just type and type... till my fingers are numb and eyes goggly.

Two days ago while walking to Margaret Drive market. I seem to hear the Lord says,"How many people have you witnessed for Christ lately?" I heard this illustration before and this is how its goes: Suppose you recieved news from the Head of the CIA, and you know that some jack-ass is going to blow up this airliner that your family or friends are going to board that very day? Would you do all you can to stop them from boarding this plane? I bet you would!

Then i began to ask myself why am I not actively winning souls to Christ?
I was reading lately and was reminded we are to be missionaries to the people around us. Missionary literally means "The sent one". We are all the sent ones. No need for me to type the whole "Great Commission" that Jesus has given us. Some of us, myself incl, have seem to have forgotten it at times, or at best, the Great Commission has become the Great Suggestion. but the Lord wasn't merely suggesting that we win some to Christ, He was really sending us out and gave us authority to do so in His name.

I have my fair share of witnessing to the people around me. If I am a bad character and after i accepted Christ, I became good; people can see a GREAT change. That'll be great of course. But I am already a christian when I started out working. I realised some actually observed me at a distance and once in a while, people may just say things like,"I thought you are a Christian? How can you say this, or do that?"

Non-believers look at our lives and examines our faith from their perspective. How we deal with the issues in our life. There are times too when i wasn't much of a good testimony. But thanks be to God, He is making me grow through bad times and each time i emerged stronger.

I also heard many reasons why people wouldn't believe in Jesus
1) My family is Buddhist, taotist etc so I can't be a christian.
2)I don't believe in your Jesus crap.
3) I am not good enough to be a christian, God wouldn't like me to be in the church.
4) I changed my life and be better first, then i go church.
5) Busy now, God later
6) You know that so-and-so also a christian, but he's so $%@&....
7) Show me a miracle(or Jesus) first, then I believe.
8) Christian give a their hard earned money to church right, that's stupid.
9) That big church in the west very rich right? Got one pastor become a singer.. blab blab. Again, why christians so blindly follow?
10) You believe in your Jesus, I believe in my god. So shut up.
11) I think i am a good man, I don't need your Jesus.

& the list go on a long way...

As christians, we know that the bible says that many unsaved people are spiritually blinded by the god of this world(satan). My prayer is that God will continue to use me as a good witness to reach out to these people. Not that I am any better or more superior. I am merely a ex-sinner redeemed by God's grace.

I believe we are living the last days as descibed in the bible. There have been so many famines, hurricanes, earthquakes, cave-ins, mines explosions all over the world. Till the extent it has almost become a weekly event something big will happen somewhere in the world. that satan is trying his best to make more people join him in hell.

Christians needs to live a life that is empowered by Jesus, filled with the Spirit. We have a eternal hope that we can offer to the unsaved around us. Non-believers are not stupid, they wants a faith(religion) that actually works in their lives! They need something REAL! Going to church every sunday morning doesn't really turn people on. Its real christians that talk the walk and walk the talk. Christians that are constantly loving the people around them, healing the sick, casting out demons, lifting up the oppressed, helping the poor, telling people about Christ who died for their sins, giving a hope to the lost.

I got a friend whom I talked to recently. He has got a steady job. Yet he felt lost bec he doesn't know what he wants out of his life. He is constantly chasing after the things of this world, changing girl-friends but never seem to find fulfillment in any of these. I am trying to tell him that his problem cannot be solved by changing another new girl friend, or buy a new car, or change a new job. He needs a permanent fix for his life. He can go on for another 5 years and things probably wouldn't change much unless he comes to realise what really matters in his life.

For myself, I am a christian for a long time. I know that the God thingy is real. Jesus died for me on the cross and was resurrected after 3 days. Today, He's alive. And i am living for Him. If Jesus did not work for me in my life. How am I going to tell people abt Him, about His goodness? You cannot convince someone to buy your product if you yourself don't believe in it. The salvation of God is a free gift, but it did not come cheap. Jesus bought it for us with His own blood.

God help me, and may He overcome your un-belief. Amen.