God's love

He first loved us...
while we were yet sinners(Romans 5:8)
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Jesus said: "I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd" (John 10:16)
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Even when go astray, He still wants us to come back to Him
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...I will not forget you,
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands....
(Isaiah 49:15-16)
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the parable of the prodigal son , the Father does not forget us(Luke 15)
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We love because He first loved us.(1 John 4:19)
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Yet there are so many out there who haven't experienced His love... are we going to share God's gift of love to them?
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a parable(taken from church today)
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picture this... a terrible famine broke out in part of Africa, an entire village starving.
then the UN sends food to the village and entrusts it to the village chief . However to the horror of the starving people, the chief stockpiles the food in a warehouse and refuses to give the food to the people unless they paid...leaving them to die one by one, while the chief and his family live in luxury. Finally, after a few months, the entire village except the chief and his family has died of starvation. The UN goes over to check to find a warehouse of rotting food and the chief still living in luxury. And the chief gets charged in court...
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are we like the chief , keeping God's gift of Love to ourselves and not sharing it with others, until all we left is a rotting self? Freely we have received so freely we should give(Matthew 10:8).
How are we going to answer to God for not telling other people about Christ?
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or picture the escalator analogy , imagine your friends crying out to you asking you why you never told them about Christ?
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just something to think about.
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In His Love,
Emil