I wonder how many of us tell nonbelievers about their need for Jesus. I will confess that sometimes weeks go by before I speak to someone about Jesus! This shouldn’t be. We have the best to offer that there will ever be. And more so, we are commanded to offer it. This we should take very seriously.
People need to call on the name of the LORD Jesus to be saved (Romans 10:13) from eternal damnation. “For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). But how “shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” (Romans 10:14). You are the preacher that the unsaved need, even if they might not know that.
Sometime ago I listened to a very moving account of someone who visited hell. This person, and some of the people in hell, were acquainted while on earth. These acquaintances in hell asked this person why he didn’t beat them when he preached to them and they refused to accept Jesus? This shows that even when people act uninterested in Jesus, they actually need him, and must therefore be witnessed to.
I pray we shall be those who will not keep quiet about our “Product”. It is free and there is none like it on the market. Those who accept it will live forever with God. Those who reject it are doomed for hell. “He who wins souls is wise” (Proverbs 11:30). Let us be the wise ones. Let us be among those who turn many to righteousness, and will therefore shine like the stars forever and ever (Daniel 12:3).
God bless you.
While I was typing this article yesterday, a friend of mine sent me a picture of Kainerugaba Muhoozi with some of his/our old schoolmates in Rwanda. I mistook one of them, Rwivanga, the best dancer in school, now a brigadier in the Rwanda army, for a certain Edwin Bakuta, who became the best dancer after Rwivanga, who I heard passed away years ago. When I interrupted my typing to quickly ‘google’ “Edwin Bakuta”, I found a moving article about him written by his once partner-in-crime who later got saved. Yes, Edwin passed on in 2006. The writer wishes he had told Edwin about Jesus the last time they met. I think this confirms that this message is timely.