Musick-al Note # 145
We are prone to excuse ourselves when we fail to attend meetings of the church, to teach a class, to visit the sick, to help another member, to send an encouraging card, or just to see a need and do it. What kind of work in the church can you do? When asked to join in something, is our only answer “I’m too tired or too busy, I can’t, or let someone else do it” or any other excuse. While one may be tired or busy or may not feel like doing this particular work or attend all the time, we ought to realize that such reasoning will not suffice with God.
To put it another way, we need to remember that God has done all He can to show you His love and save your soul from sin for an eternity with Him. All mankind, including you, could have been discarded by the God-head and everyone cast away, God gave his only Son to save everyone who will believe that He sent Jesus to the world (John 3:16). However, the love of God and Jesus constrained them to save us at an extreme cost (1 Peter 1:18-19), It meant sending the Son from heaven and living among sinful man as man himself. Christ gave so much of himself to bring about our salvation. It meant laying to burden of sin on Him. It meant Jesus had to endure the suffering of the cross (Matthew 26:39). It meant agony, torture and death, yes this included His dying on the cross for everyone (Hebrews 2:9). Out of their love and endurance of these things, salvation is granted you and me through Jesus when we obey Him (Hebrews 5:9).
How do our excuses compare to His work to save us when we say, “I’m too tired” or “I’m too busy” or “I don’t feel like it” or “I just have to get away for a while”?. They sound pretty shallow and childish don’t they? If we examine them carefully, we will see that they have only a skin of truth stuffed with a lie. Outwardly they are true but really we only want to do what we want to do. Shall we continue to give excuses when we consider the great gifts of God and His Son, Jesus?
Gordon Musick
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