Covering Falsehood With Truth
As I have continued to read over again the booklet “Words to Winners of Souls” I have stumbled upon a great truth / self deception that I think some would argue is a great instrument used by Satan in keeping many reformed believers unmoved by the preaching of God’s word and unchanged in their daily life.
Have you yourself ever said, “Well I’m going to leave the sharing of the gospel up to someone else”, because they’re a family member or perhaps you’ve actually been prompted to share the gospel with someone but at the last moment you cower to your own fears, and say to yourself “I’ll leave it in God’s hands, after all he’s sovereign isn’t He?”
This next section is a quote from Horatius Bonar’s book again “Words to Winners of Souls.”
“Exactly so it is with us as ministers: when we can rest satisfied with using the means for saving souls without seeing them really saved, or we ourselves being broken-hearted by it and at the same time quietly talk of leaving the event to God’s disposal, we make use of a truth to cover and excuse a falsehood; for our ability to leave the matter thus is not, as we imagine, the result of a heart-submission to God, but of heart indifference to the salvation of the souls we deal with. No, truly, if the heart is really set on such an end, it must gain that end or break in losing it.”
He that saved our souls has taught us to weep over the unsaved. Lord let that mind be in us that was in Thee! Give us thy tears to weep; for, Lord our hearts are hard toward our fellows. We can see thousands perish around us, and our sleep never be disturbed; no vision of their awful doom ever scaring us, no cry from their lost souls ever turning our peace into bitterness.
Our families, our schools, our congregations not to speak of our cities at large, our land, our world, might well send us daily to our knees; for the loss of even one soul is terrible beyond conception. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered the heart of man, what a soul in hell must suffer forever. Lord, give us bowels of mercies! “What a mystery! The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another!”
So often we in our insincerity will not mourn or weep for a lost soul, we will hide behind a contrived false sincerity which we feel obligated to have, putting the truth of God, about God’s Sovereignty in front of us to hide behind, and yet our very own hearts do not mourn and weep for the lost who are not being told about Christ. It is always, or at the very least often said that “someone else will share Christ with them who is more gifted than I.”
We so mush rest in the fact that God is sovereign that we neglect the weight of our responsibility, we take license with our Christian liberty and in our freedom ignore the great commission.
We say we love our family members who are lost, yet we say nothing…., we say we love our friends, and perhaps our co-workers whom we spend much time with and yet we say little to them about Christ. Or any lost person that we see on a consistent bases and yet have made no attempts.
Oh how we seem to be able to rest so peacefully in our ‘hyper Calvinistic thought‘ unawares of it, that we have no part to play in the salvation of men, on the contrary, it is the means by which God has chosen for His people to bring people to the Cross so that men may hear the preaching of the word & know the love of Christ!
So I plead to everyone, consider this quote and mediate on it as you consider someone you love that needs Christ as their savior!
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