WE CAN, WE SHOULD

I didn't say it well, but when speaking on Outreach a few Sunday nights back I said something like, "Just think. You have the power to change someone's eternity. You have the ability to turn around someone that is headed for hell so that he ends up in heaven." Wow! I clarified that only God has the power to save, change a heart, alter a destiny. Yet, we have the power to change lives as stated. Why? 1. God has chosen to use us as His instrument to save people. Angels are not His primary evangelists. We are. We can be used of God to rescue those headed to hell. 2. We have and know the power of the Gospel. We say with Apostle Paul, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation." Any that know the story of Jesus possess the power to see a life changed. All is needed is to share that good news. 3. Only the Spirit can give new life to one without Christ. Yet, we are told, with the Spirit's coming into our lives we would receive power to be witnesses. So, yes, we have the power to change someone's eternity. No guilt here, but think: What if a doctor had the knowledge and medicine to save a life, but wouldn't treat the sick one? What if the fireman's ladder would reach the floor where a child was trapped by the fire, but he never even got the ladder off the truck? What if an excellent swimmer never even jumped into the water as he stood on the bank seeing and hearing a floundering, flailing man screaming from the water, "Help me. Please, help me."? What a power we have. We have the power to change a life. We can. We should.