THE LOST SOUL

 Today in my Church we started a 3-day 2016 December retreat program. I had gone out yesterday to share out the invitation flyers to the program when I came across a fellow who rejected it whilst claiming he was an atheist. He was just the second person I had wanted giving it to when he said he won't come and gave his reason.

I immediately took interest in him and tried to find out why he had taken such a decision, this year, according to him.

He went on to talk about how churches preach about prosperity and nothing else. He also mentioned how religion was the cause of the problem of this world and in spite of all I said in the short time we discussed, I could hardly make sense of what he was saying.

He spoke about politicians, religion and corruption and I wondered what the link was. He said churches were springing up everywhere and yet the members were committing evil also.

At the end of the day I managed to tell him not to look up to humans for help (Jeremiah 17:5) but to Jesus Christ (Jeremiah 17:7) as the Bible says. I also advised him to study the lifestyle of Jesus Christ as contained in the Holy Bible and he would see that the problem was with humans and not Christianity.

He promised to come back some other time to speak to me but I wonder if that would ever happen because he is a lost soul in dire need of salvation. It just occurred to me that I can pray about it and God would make it work (a second meeting) so I would do just that!

Dear friend, have you met anyone like this? This fellow in my estimation cannot be more than 30 years of age and he has already given up on the one thing that he needs most - his salvation that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

It is clear his knowledge of the Christian faith is very shallow and he was busy speaking seriously of things he knew little or nothing about.

He however made a valid point, which I must admit. His reference to some practitioners of the Christian faith living a double life of sin is spot on. 

However, this fellow was not saying anything new because the Word of God has already stated this as a feature of the last days in 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

Unfortunately, this fellow has gone against the very advice the Word of the God gives in verse 5 where it says Christians should keep away from those who claim Christianity but live a sinful life. Such people are already in danger of going to HELL unless they repent and turn back sincerely to Jesus Christ.

This fellow chose to use that as a yardstick to assess Christianity and took the wrong decision to give up his faith.

Fortunately, I can still and would still pray for him in the hope and belief that Jesus Christ would show mercy and arrest him and bring him back to his senses. I say so because Jesus is the only who can save someone and He says His alone is the prerogative of mercy as stated in Romans 9:15.

I also pray that it would not be too late for this fellow to return because it is people like this lost soul that make satan very happy in that he has by his renunciation of his Christian faith automatically given his membership and soul to satan's kingdom of darkness.

The consequence of doing this is grave because all such lost souls who reject Jesus Christ and/or who die in sin will certainly go to HELL to stay with their master satan.

The Holy Bible makes it clear in Psalm 9:17, "The wicked shall be turned into HELL, and all the nations that forget God."

Dear friend, please share this message with all your friends, relatives, acquaintances and anyone you know that has gone this wrong path so they can repent and retrace their steps before it is too late.

Jesus Christ is coming very, very soon.

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

Gabriel Ama.