If there’s anything I am good at it’s sinning. And one of my best and favorite sins is to judge and make fun of anyone who isn’t pretty much the same as me. With God’s help I have been getting better at refraining but I haven’t gotten much better about telling people I don’t like about Jesus. The other night I had a perfect opportunity.
There were some annoying, brat, girls at a basketball game I was at that really just vexed me in every way. I could tell by people’s facial expressions I wasn’t the only one and comments were just brewing in my head. I had to stop myself though. I did my best to be kind, but I didn’t really talk to them. I thought I needed to be like Jesus to them but would Jesus just sit there around lost people, presumably, and not say anything to them? Is that as nice as I get? Do I seriously think that I am being Jesus to people by not talking to them rather than talking about them? That’s pathetic when you think about it.
This led to me to be reminded that I need to talk to every lost person about Jesus the same. I need to treat them the same, all day, everyday. I find myself being nicer and being more open with my faith with nice lost people and just blowing off mean, annoying lost people. The fact is that if the nice ones don’t accept the Christ I tell them about they’re going to spend eternity in Hell right along side the annoying ones that I didn’t give the chance to accept Christ.
Is there any particular group of people you tend to stay away from? It’s hard to see that group as souls that need Jesus rather than a group you wouldn’t associate with. It’s easy to ask God for witnessing opportunity but it’s even easier to miss all the opportunity sitting in front of you in class, or living across the hall. Who are you ignoring that needs to hear about Jesus? What are you going to do about it?