How much are you willing to pay
to see one soul enter into eternity?
I love the hymn, “Jesus Paid it
All”. I believe we will never understand
the weight of a statement like that. He
paid it all? What does all encompass? His life?
His glory? What else did he pay
in order to save you from the punishment your sin justly deserves?
This week has been a crazy week
as we hopped from doctor visit to the ER back to the doctor, back to the
hospital for x-rays, trying to diagnose my daughter’s illness.
For a brief moment I contemplated
on how we were driving across town, sometimes three times a day this week and
how we were going to blow our gas budget because of my daughter being
sick. You know what I did after that
thought? That’s right! I kept driving to
the next appointment and then the next appointment because the cost of gas
doesn’t compare to the health of my daughter.
I will pay whatever it would take to make my daughter well.
Then, in the midst of my thought
about how good of a dad I was because I wasn’t putting my gas budget before the
needs of my daughter, I had one of those “God” moments. “Greg”, God said in his
oh so quiet convincing voice, “If that’s how much you are willing to pay to
save the physical well being of another human, then how much are you willing to
pay to save the souls of many more?”
Sheesh! Why, God?
You really need to bring that up now.
Do you have to bring that point up in the moment of life where it is
going to be most compelling! Because the
truth is, I am not willing to pay it all, and I am probably not willing to pay
as much as I would on my daughter’s health to see people come to know Jesus Christ.
How much would you pay, how much
would you invest to see one soul enter into the glory of God? How far out of your comfort zone would you
travel? How much of your budget would
you blow? How deep would you travel into
the realms of faith in order to see just one person come to know Christ and be
saved from the grips of God’s eternal wrath?
I don’t know about you, but
that’s one I have to sit on for awhile.
I don’t have an answer today. I
know what I would want my answer to be, and that is, I am willing to pay it
all, but I know when push comes to shove, I’m not, but I want to be willing to. Are you?
“Jesus paid it all, all to him I
owe. Sin has left a crimson stain; he
washed it white as snow.” Thank You
Jesus!
