Dear friend, I don't believe their can anything more heartbreaking than to have a loved one or a close friend who is not a Christian. Many of us feel deeply with the apostle Paul when he said in Romans 9:3 "For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh."
We feel helpless because we can't make them believe! We must trust in the tender mercies of God to work in their heart to show them their desperate need of His Son. But in the meantime we have lot's of work to do. Just because God is the author of salvation that doesn't mean we have no work to do. We have lot's of work to do and our heavenly Father bid's us to work with dividends of eternal worth!
God has chosen to use human instruments to bring about His saving work in the heart of sinners. The gospel truth must be at the heart of this endeavor! No need to shave off the rough edges or candy coat the gospel message for God has promised to bless our endeavors if it is accompanied by his truth.
So while we trust God to bless His truth we must remain vigilant in holiness, godliness, faithfulness, love and many good works. Yet, I've left off till last the most important aspect of our work that we must be engaged in if we are to see sinners saved and that is prayer! So much can be said but let me leave you with these words from Mr. Spurgeon to help fuel our hearts in seeing sinners saved!!!
"We ought to make it a rule of our life to bear the sorrows of other people. If sinners will not repent, we cannot repent for them. If they will not believe, we cannot believe for them. True religion can never be a matter of sponsorship, but we can do this for sinners—we can say to the Lord, “O Lord, these sinners will not feel their sin, but we feel it! It grieves us and cuts us to the heart! O Lord, will You not give them repentance? Will You not cause these sinners to believe in You? We confess their iniquity before You, for we know the guiltiness of their hearts in rejecting You. We weep and mourn that they will not admire Your beauty and will not yield their hearts to You, but, dear Savior, do win their hearts in answer to our prayer. They are far away from God by their wicked works—bring them nearby Your precious blood.” That is what I mean. And if
you can do this, appropriating, as it were, the sins and sorrows of mankind to yourself, you will be showing your sympathy with them in the best possible way."
May Christ give us the strength in this most noble endeavor!
Made Willing In The Day of His Power!
Casey Kirkman
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