Let's get Real Serious for a Minute...

   Amos 6:1. 4-7 Woe to you who are complacent... You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambsand fattened calves. You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments. You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.

 

Allow me to translate...Disaster awaits you who are idle concerning the eternal salvation of others. You sit around and watch T.V., you lay on the couch, you eat nice dinners, after all you deserve it, you work hard, you sleep in nice beds and get plenty of rest, your entertained all the time, but you do little to nothing concerning the salvation of others, and yet you think you have eternal life. Matthew Henry said this, "Those who are set upon their pleasures are commonly careless of the troubles of others, but this is great offence to God. Those who placed their happiness in the pleasures of sense, and set their hearts upon them, shall be deprived of those pleasures"

                        

"Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the LORD's vengeance; he will pay her what she deserves.  Jeremiah 51:6

 

Paul was a man of sorrow concerning the salvation of others. He even wished he could take their place as painful as it would be, "I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers..." Jesus too was a man of sorrow, "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not" Isaiah 53:3

 

If your heart is not broken over the lost, confess your sin to God immediately and ask Him to allow you to share in the sorrow of Christ over those who reject Him. Beg the Lord, do not stop until he gives you the gift of tears and those tears cause your hands and feet to move.