How do we find the lost?
How can we please You as we do Your work, Lord?
We must care about them first.
Realize that Your heart aches for them
and You would like us to reach out to them on Your behalf.
They are everywhere, yet they are not always searching for You.
How to create that hunger inside of them to learn of You?
To salt just enough that there is a desire?
To love, to care, to demonstrate Your character as much as we are able.
You said If I be truly lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me.
To apply Your truths doesn’t always seem to work
because many walk away or argue as they have not grasped them
or they do not like them.
Our flesh does not profit anything,
no matter how hard we try
or how good our intentions may be.
It is the Spirit that gives life.
We must remain humble in You,
realizing that it is not what we do,
but Your Spirit who chooses to use us as a vessel,
as a port to bring them to You so You can continue to teach them.
It is not of ourselves
and not always easy for us to remain neutral with You at the helm,
going whithersoever You will.
Give us true love, Your love for the people who don’t yet know You,
remembering that through someone else, we ourselves came to You.
EDITED:
Very shortly after I posted this writing, I was talking to a friend who lives in Eastern Europe. He had nobody witness to him. He came to read the bible after he heard the Lord speak to him one day and went and bought a bible to read. We are truly blessed in this country to have such an abundance of the gospel and others with which to share and draw strength from.
Scriptural References:
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Luke 10:2
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. Ezekiel 18:32
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 1 John 3:1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew 5:13
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. John 6:38
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. John 6:44