151 thousand people die each day. Possibly as many as 85% of these don't make it into the eternity we as Christians believe in.
Do we really believe that we are the only ones armed with the truth? If we are, then it is like we have the formula for the cure of cancer in our hands, only much better as every cancer survivor will eventually die anyway, but God's Word goes into all of eternity (Matt 24:35).
Do we really believe this?
If we do then there wouldn't be time to fight over the colour of the carpets in church. There would be no bickering, as the cause looming is much larger than everything we live for in our short lives.
Nothing this side of Heaven is worth fighting for, except the Word of the Kingdom being sown as seed. Everything else automatically takes the backseat.
I see this so much in this short passage in Acts:
Acts 18:24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to
Ephesus. 25 This man had been instructed in the way of the
Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of
the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John. 26 So he began
to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they
took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. 27 And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the
brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he
greatly helped those who had believed through grace; 28 for he
vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is
the Christ. (NKJV)
Apollos was a great orator, strong in the Word. But to his credit, he stood to correction from Aquila and Priscilla, who "explained to him the way of God more accurately". Seeing the man's heart, the brethren at Ephesus wrote a note to recommend him to the disciples at Achaia.
There is such a sense of mission, like a war, here, that it was a total effort on everyone's part to get this Message out. It wasn't giving a few dollars to a cause, like cancer research or something. It was an army sending their best special forces out, to conquer for the Kingdom.
Time's too short and people too many. We either believe it all or we don't believe at all.
Seek to know Him, know His love, discover the depths of relationship with Him. Freely we have been given - if we don't realise this, then freely we won't give. We need so much to experience His love for us (Eph 3:19, Ps 34:8) that we may love as we have been loved (1 Joh 4:19).
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