You Can't Handle The Truth!

Hello all....

Yes I know I haven't posted in a while... and I was being heckled about it earlier tonight. But my main excuse was that I didn't have anything interesting or original to say. Well after thinking about it a little more, I realized that this is only partly true. You see I know this great, big, beautiful God, and ever since I've known Him I've had something interesting to say. I haven't recently posted about my Saviour because I didn't want to come off as sounding fake, or inauthentic, or like a Jesus pep squad....
For the record I really do love God, I have struggles, I am so far from perfect it's scary, I screw up all the time, and I don't go to church just because all my friends go.
With that out of the way, I'm going to tell you a little bit about something that has been on mind for awhile...
The Bible, is often referred to as God's Word, or the Truth. Inside the Bible it tells us about this amazing infinite God who loves us and created us and sent His Son to die for us. So that His Son would pay the ultimate sacrifice and it would be offered to us as a gift from our heavenly Father, so that we only need to accept it and be given eternal life. Inside this book referred to as Truth there is much talk of unconditional love, grace, and mercy, these words are not often uttered in the world we live in. We're more likely to hear words like: tragedy, scandal, disaster, lies, corruption, and protest. Now that doesn't really sound like words of a world that know the Truth, does it?
It's funny to me that we can sit in church, in our youth groups, or in our college and career groups and talk about the tragic downward spiral of the world as we know it, but then go about the day without giving it a second thought. I have to admit, I do it all the time! Sometimes you can look today's society square in the face and shout "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" And the sad thing is, it may be true, but in all honesty, that is not our judgement call to make!
And do you want to know what is even more sad.... we, as Christians, as the body of Christ, as the Church, are just as responsible as the Devil (who we like to so often blame for all of our problems) that this society is as decrepid and corrupt as it is.
Do you want to know why? It's because it is our responsibility to tell other people the Truth, someone who has never heard about God before is not going to just figure it out for themselves, I sure didn't! Someone struggled to get me to come to church, someone explained salvation to me, various people have taught me, and discipled me along the way, and I am so grateful for it because I know I wouldn't be the person I am now, without all the people who have invested in me in the past. Sometimes the investment was large, sometimes it wasn't, but every one of them have been important and served a purpose in my life. God's great commission was to go out and make disciples of the nations.... He never once said 'stop', or 'after you've talked to ten people, meh that's good enough'.
So, to everyone who may read this post, and who know the Lord, I challenge you! I challenge you to tell people about your Saviour, I challenge you to invest in someone's life, and when you think someone isn't ready to hear the Truth, don't give up, don't stop all communication with them because you feel you're not getting through to them, don't decide that they'll never accept salvation without even trying.
"If the Lord delights in a man's way He makes his steps firm;
thought he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds
him with His hand."
-Psalm 37:23,24

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine, according to the power that is at work within us"
-Ephesians3:20

And to any who might read this who does not know the Lord... I'm also going to challenge you, search your heart.... if you think something might be missing in your life, please e-mail me, I would love to answer any questions about God you may have...

Til next time...