DON'T BE TOO BUSY TO KNOW JESUS CHRIST

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Today, Saturday June 13, 2015 my Church group organized evangelism within my home area so we broke into smaller groups to go share the Gospel with others.

As usual, we observed that people naturally moved away once they saw people clutching the Holy Bible approaching to speak to them.

Even those I know personally who worked for me as artisans claimed to be very busy to listen and when we got one or two to listen, they would walk away claiming to go and attend to customer's jobs.

After a while, we would see them chatting in groups and not doing the work they claimed they were busy attending to that made them refuse to listen to the Gospel message in the first instance.

I did not feel bad or disappointed because I recollect I was once like that, always taking off once I sighted people clutching the Holy Bible and approaching to share the Gospel with me.

Now that I know better, I regret all those times of foolishness and ignorance when I ran away from the best thing that could happen to any human - the opportunity of knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

Most Christians prefer those who would not object because it makes the Gospel message easier to share.

However, those who need it most are the ones who run away from it. Now I realise that I have no right to be upset at them but rather to continue to pray that God would show them the same mercy He showed me to become a committed Christian.

Our Lord Jesus Christ says in John 12:47-48, "47 And if anyone hears My Words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has that which judges him — the Word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day."

Every human born into this world is destined to die someday, a day no one knows except God our Creator (Psalm 139:16). Once a person exits this world in death, the only thing that would matter is how the person treated God's Word in the Holy Bible for those who heard the Word preached by whatever means - whether on Television, tract, radio, Mobile Phone, Internet, etc.

Every activity we are so busy attending to now will automatically end that day and would mean nothing any more.

Unfortunately, for the individual who has not known Jesus Christ personally and did not care about giving his or her life to Jesus, such individual CANNOT enter Heaven where God the Creator is.

Anyone who cannot enter heaven at death in eternity has only one other place to go - HELL FIRE.

The final destination at death for any one, whether male or female, young or old, rich or poor, sick or healthy, is a permanent one- it can never change and it is forever and ever and ever.

Therefore, dear friend, a wise person would constantly meditate on these things and take time to know God and ask Him to reveal the truth to him or her.

If you were not born into Christianity, the sensible thing to do now, having read this message is to pray earnestly to God Almighty to reveal His truth to you concerning what Christians say about God, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

The God I know and serve will SURELY respond to a genuine request from any one of any nationality or religious inclination who wishes to know the truth. God does not want any soul to perish but for all to repent and return to Him through our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:9).

Also, a person born into Christianity is expected to study God's Word found ONLY in the Holy Bible, to ensure to practise what is written there diligently and ask God to send His Holy Spirit to guide him or her ALWAYS.

The God I know and serve will also respond to such genuine request because of His love for everyone.

On the other hand, anyone who fails to make this genuine request to God in prayer and claims to be too busy to hear His message or too busy to serve Him as all Christians are expected will only blame himself or herself in the end because God will do what He says He will do.

God's Word says everyone of us will CERTAINLY give account of their stewardship here on earth to Him at the end of their lives (2 Corinthians 5:10;Romans 14:12).

Dear friend, please I urge you not to be too busy to know Jesus Christ and His Ways. There are enormous benefits attached to this and the consequences of failing to heed this advice are better imagined than experienced.

May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Holy Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus' Precious Name, Amen.


Gabriel Ama.

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