My little boy has been pretty sick for the last four days. Congestion, coughing, runny nose, and fever, you know a typical, good old fashioned cold. The worse he feels and the more he needs to take his medicine, the harder he fights it. We try being nice and asking him to take it, we try tricking him by putting it into juice, yogurt, or milk. We try forcing him by holding him down and dropping it into his mouth, only to see it spit out all over the place. Nothing works! He refuses to take it! The whole time, he's getting sicker and sicker and his fevers are lasting longer because it's longer between doses of fever reducer. I am just about at my wits end.
The same can be said for most of this generation of people. This world is getting more and more evil with every breath that is taken and so many people are so happy to just blindly wallow in their sin like a pig in the mud, and just like my son with his medicine, they refuse to be given the cure. That cure, of course, is Jesus! God has commissioned every follower of Christ to share Him with this sin poisoned world but are we giving the "medicine", or are we keeping Him all for ourselves? Are they spitting it out, or refusing it, or are they gladly taking it for immediate restoration?
All I see and hear (for the most part) are people seeking spirituality in every manor possible but the one right under their nose. They go from flat out false religion to prosperity doctrine and any other false "feel good" doctrine they can join in, but still remain sick and confused with sin. There is one cure, and one cure only, and that is the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. So, how do we get people to "take their medicine"? We can't force it. We can't use trickery, that makes us just as sinful as the rest of the world. We really can't even nicely ask either because the gospel is an offense to those who refuse it. I guess that all we can do is shout it from the rooftops as loudly and often as we can and help and guide those who would receive it, and let those who refuse it stay sick.
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