Frustration
Recently I have become increasingly frustrated with one thing and I’ve been asking God to walk me through this…and He has. It is VERY frustrating to realize as a friend, family member, leader, servant or any other capacity I am in a relationship with someone right now…I cannot make people receive Jesus. It’s frustrating when you see the potential in someone if they would just receive Christ or if they would just let Christ have complete control over their lives but they just hold back.
You see people can list and give you many reasons they won’t ever “convert” or become a Christ Follower. For some, it’s where they say their spiritual life has taken them too. Others say spiritual thing are no longer an issue for them because there is no God to begin with. Whatever the excuse or arguement for putting Jesus Christ on the back burner and replacing Him with their own “religious” outlook, stepping back is a hard thing for me to do.
If I could count how many friends and family I know who claimed to be Christ followers and then have checked out for one reason or another later on in life, I’d be typing all night. Ultimately it comes down to the fact they were NEVER Christ followers to begin with. There was never a point in their lives when Jesus so radically changed them. It bothers me when you see parents of kids who have left the church and they will look at their kids and say, “I remember when you walked down the isle and got saved as a kid. I’m praying God will bring you back.”
WAKE UP and stop enabling your kids. I have a news flash for you parents…your kid was never “saved” to begin with! The Bible clearly states, where there is no fruit in the life of a believer, then there was no conversion to speak of in the first place!
I continue to pray for specific people in my life and realize that I can only do just that, pray. I can talk to them, love them, share the gospel with them when the opportunity comes…but ultimately all I can do is consistently declare truth and pray that God will remove the calluses from their hearts so that they can receive Christ and allow Him to be preeminent in their lives.
