Let's be Real

I know it’s finals, but be honest with yourself…

How many times have you felt like God wanted you to talk to someone this week and you just walked right by then trying to talk yourself out of it? How many today? Here’s the thing y’all. This has been on my heart for a while, forgive me if it’s not warm and fluffy.

If you pass by someone in the student center and think to yourself: “Oh, someone else will do it. I don’t know that much scripture, and God can use someone better than me…” then I am mainly talking to you (and me included... I do this ALL the time.)

1.If you don’t know that much scripture that is an easy fix: LEARN IT! Seriously. I mean, we learn song lyrics with such ease. We can learn chapter upon chapter of things that we don’t care about for a final, so I have no doubt that our our minds are capable of learning Bible verses. And not just bible verses, but chapters and books of the Bible. Also, not knowing “enough scripture” is no excuse for not talking to someone about the Lord. If the Lord is asking you to talk to someone He is doing this for a reason. He makes no mistakes He’s asking YOU for a reason, and he will provide the words to say anyways!
2.This is my main point. If you pass by that person thinking that someone else will talk to them and the next person thinks the same thing..what if everyone thinks that exact same thing and no one ever reaches that person? Hell is real, guys. It’s not the dark part of some fairy tale. It is real. And some people that we know and love are destined to a real hell and we’re too busy talking about the weather, our boy/girl problems, and just being flat out selfish in all honesty with our words and conversations. Someone we love is destined for a real hell and we can’t muster up enough courage to say something about it!? REALLY!?

Look at it this way:

If you’re dating someone and they don’t want to tell their friends about it or even family about you…would you have that much confidence in your relationship? Would you want to be a part of that relationship? NO! Let’s be honest here, we’d be ticked! We’d be thinking, “good granny! Are you ashamed of me?!” Well, in the same way when we don’t speak up that’s what it looks like to them. It looks like we’re ashamed of God.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want anyone to ever think that I’m ashamed of God. He breathed stars into existence, but still knows my heart and thought process. Not only that, but he understands my thought process! (which in and of itself is insanely incredible because I’m complicated) And not only does He know my heart, but he loves me anyways! And it goes even further than that. He loves US so much that He sent His perfect, sinless son to die for us. Nails were driven into his hands, God’s full wrath was poured out on Him so that we could live eternity with the Lord. Isn’t that amazing!? He did this for EVERYONE! Why would we ever be afraid to tell the whole world about that? That is true love. Just like we are bubbling with excitement about being in love we should be so overwhelmed by the fact that we are lavishly loved by the God of the universe! We should want to tell everyone and not hold back. So be bold. Remember that He will give you the words to say. (And also please know that I am preaching to myself…I don’t want you to think I’m doggin’ on ya or a hypocrite, because I know that I need to remember this too) Because y’all….Jesus paid MUCH too high of a price for us to shy away from his truth and precious, precious blood was spilt….The price is too high for us to pick and choose who to talk to.

I love all of y’all so so much!

In Him,
Maggie