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What Concerns You Most?
I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body,
and after that have no more that they can do.
But I will warn you whom ye shall fear:
Fear him who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell;
yea, I say unto you fear him.
Luke 12:4,5
This passage, along with several more, stir our thinking toward what is most important to us versus what is important to God. It makes us soberly consider the value of our souls and the direction we are taking it - heaven or hell. Consider the seriousness of the following questions:
- Where would you be most pleased to have your son go? To Afghanistan to fight, or to a small town in America to preach where there is no church?
- What makes you happiest? To hear of 100 terrorists killed, or to hear of one soul converted in Japan?
- For whom do you pray most often? Those in harm’s way fighting for their country, or those preaching the gospel in faraway places?
- In praying for our rulers, what is your greatest concern? Our own peaceful, quiet lives, or that “all may be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth?”
- What disturbs you the most? Drugs in sports and immorality on TV, or a Christian living for the devil?
- What arouses your greatest sympathy? The fact many children in South Africa are hungry, or the fact that most of them do not know the Lord?
- What do you fear most? Another terrorist attack like 9/11, or Satan’s capture of the church of which you are a member?
- What concerns you the most? Pollution of drinking water and air, or pollution from pornography?
- Who are to be the most blamed? Those who speak in defense of marriage as a man and woman, or those who promote homosexuality?
- Who is mostly evil? Those who shoot innocent people shopping at a mall, or those who teach in universities and attack and destroy the faith of young Christians?
Edited from an article by Sewell Hall
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