“Worth Savin Me?”
March 9, 2009 by Standing on Truth
Filed under Christianity, Seekers
“For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16
How many times have we heard that verse before in our lifetime? Have we heard it so often that we’ve become numb to its meaning? If we have already been redeemed by Christ for our sins and know that we have eternal life, then this verse brings comfort to us. But is that all this verse says? We live in a world where it is not politically correct, or tolerant, to acknowledge the other portion of this verse. The part about perishing.
There is a world that is perishing; a world that is dying in their sins today, tomorrow, and a month from now. These same people are the ones with whom you work , share a bus or a subway, have lunch, or attend children’s birthday parties. And we have been given a command — to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
I viewed a music video (below) by the group Nickelback that absolutely changed me. The song is called “Savin Me” and if you view it in terms of our unavoidable physical death and the spiritual depravity that this world faces without Jesus, I know you will never be the same again. (A quick note about the video: those are numbers above everyone’s heads — the number of seconds left in their life.) Jesus came to save every single person, but how many of them do not know it, and may perish? How many of them ask daily, to anyone who will listen, if “it’s worth savin me?”
Which side of this verse (John 3:16) are you on? If you do not have eternal life as the Bible promises to those who accept Christ, please visit the link below to find out how you can. And if you have that life, do you have a prompting to care for those still on the perishing side?
http://heargoodnews.com/gospel/doyouknow.html
