”For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son
into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16-17 NIV)
Within the drug and alcohol abuse care
community one often heard: ‘There are no
hopeless cases.’ It was meant as encouragement for all co-workers who
battled the head winds and rarely saw a person become free. Eventually the
slogan was changed as someone said: ‘Yes,
there are hopeless cases, but none of us know when we are dealing with a
hopeless case.’
It’s the same
when we seek to share our Christian faith with others. There are certainly many
people who will never come to faith, but you and I never know who it concerns.
Early in my
Christian life I learned to see all people as potentially saved – the lady in the supermarket could be saved, the
man next to me in the train could be saved, my neighbor could be saved. It
meant I saw people in a different way, with an expectation that something would
also happen in their life.
Prayer
Help me God to protect the active faith that
all people can be saved, and that I can participate and share faith with
someone today
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