Priceless

Sorry for the hiatus for anyone who had been reading on a regular basis. I could make up a hundred excuses for why I haven’t been writing for the past month or so but the truth is I haven’t felt like I was right with Lord. I believe that the Good Lord has let me start writing and if I ain’t right with him I don’t want to write something that I don’t feel good about or that the Lord may not bless. That gets me to my questions for today. What is your witness worth to you, what is my witness worth to me, do you have a witness at all? I see people all the time who say their Christian and go to church on Sunday and work for the Lord on a pretty regular basis but don’t set any value on their witness to the lost. You may be saying what in the world is he talking about? I am talking about Going to church Sunday morning praising to Lord working for the Lord the going home and drinking your six pack that you bought on Saturday just so you would have beer on Sunday. Now if a lost man sees you going to Church and working for the Lord and then sees you half drunk on Sunday afternoon what is he going to think? I know what I would think if I was him, I would say this guy or gal is no different me, why do I need to go to church and get to know lord and get saved if this person is just like me. Now I’m not just talking about drinking I am talking about cursing acting a fool just all around not acting like a Christian knows they should act. Now it may seem I am harking on drinking a lot but it just makes such a good example. And for those of you who know me pretty well you may say this is pretty hypocritical because I’ve seen him have a drink before, and that is why I am asking myself the same question I am asking you. I’ll give another good example let’s say you have been going to church you have been inviting all your buddies to church and witnessing to them about God. Specifically how Jesus can change your life and how He has changed you life and then these same people see you buying a case of beer or see you somewhere puking, stumbling drunk, for a lost man to see that is taking away every bit of what you have been working so hard for. All the talk about Church and God and Jesus you just threw all that out the door as far as he is concerned I know because I’ve been there. I was lost in my sins for a very long time and I have had someone who said they were a good Christian and invited me to church and told me about Jesus turn around the next day and get drunk with me and act a fool just like I was. The whole time I’m thinking what is this guy crazy, he’s no different than me why should I go to church or worry about Jesus? Or for the most part it doesn’t have to have anything to do with drinking as I said it just makes a very good example. It can be cursing or attitude or business ethic is a good one. Let’s just say you have been doing some business with someone who says their a Christian and goes to church and witnesses to you about Jesus and then turns around and lies to you about a business deal or always seems to have their hands in some kind or shady business just to make an extra buck. How does that make his witness look? Again if I was lost and wasn’t going to church it would definitely put a bad taste in my mouth about going and getting interested in Jesus. All this said second to your own salvation and your relationship with God your witness should be a very valuable part of your life. It should be priceless for a saved man. When I say priceless I mean if you had a check for 10 million dollars you’d lock it up in the safest place you could find, you probably wouldn’t even let it leave you sight or get a drop of water on it or you may even guard it with you life if it came right down to it and that is how your witness should be. You should hold it so close and set such value on it that it can’t be compromised for any reason. So if your saved do your treat your witness like a 10 million dollar check or like a few old pennies in the bottom of your ash tray and if you’re not saved come get to know Jesus for yourself and see the great gift of salvation and see what value you will set on your witness. I also want to say Christians are sinners just like every human there not perfect by any means that’s why you need to come to the foot of that Old Rugged Cross and see for yourself what the love of Jesus can do for your life.