Devotions

Someone and SOMEONE

I really truly believe in a literal, terrible, eternal place of torment and anguish.  And I really believe there are people I love who will end up there if they don’t surrender their lives to Jesus.  And I really believe that we should read, preach, teach, share, plead, beg, go, pray, give, model, sacrifice, work, bleed, lose sleep, take criticism, until our Church’s heart breaks for lost people.   That’s why when I have to introduce myself I borrow the song lyrics …..

• I’m NOBODY telling EVERYBODY about SOMEBODY who can save ANYBODY.

It’s great when lost people are found, but some of us have been found so long we’ve forgotten what it means to be lost.   Louis Pasteur, the pioneer of immunology, lived in an era when thousands died of rabies.  For years he worked to develop a vaccine, but it had not been tried on a human being.  Just before he began to experiment on himself, a rabid dog bit a nine year old boy named Joseph Meister.  The boy’s mother desperately wanted Pasteur to experiment on her son. The medical community railed against him and criticized him, but for 10 days Pasteur injected Joseph Meister with the serum he had developed, and miraculously the boy lived.  Decades later, of all the things Pasteur could have etched on his tombstone, of all the accolades and honors, he requested three words:

• Joseph Meister lived

One saved life made it all worth it.   That’s the attitude we need to have for all the unchurched unsaved Joseph Meisters in Lawrence County.  WE ALL KNOW SOMOENE WHO NEEDS SALVATION AND WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN PROVIDE IT.   Don’t worry so much about saying the right thing, keep your testimony brief and simple and point that someone to the Someone who can make all the difference.

• People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Let’s show them how much we care – one soul at a time.