Read Proverbs 24: 11&12
There are two groups of people mentioned in our verses for today: those
who are drawn into death and us. You may
say, “I don’t know anyone who is about to be killed today. How does this verse apply to me? I am just a kid.” Well, that may be true. You may not know anyone who is in danger of
being killed today. But you may know
people who do not know Jesus Christ. You
may know people who are not Christians.
These people are in a dangerous place.
If they were to die today, where would they spend eternity? Hell is a terrible place. That is why we do not use the word hell in every day language. Using the word hell is not very nice. Using
the word hell is bad language and you
should not say hell just as a
word. Hell is a terrible place and we
should do what we can to warn people about not going there. So, in the spiritual sense, we may know
people who are, as our verses say, drawn
unto death. And our verses say that
it is our responsibility to warn them about the danger that they are
facing. If we try to say, we didn’t know
that they were facing death, verse 12 says that God knows our hearts. He knows that we know. In Genesis 4 after Cain’s offering of
vegetables was refused by God, Cain got mad.
He didn’t like that his brother Abel’s animal offering was accepted by
God. Cain was jealous of his brother and
rose up and killed him. When God asked
Cain about his brother, Cain tried to say that he wasn’t responsible for his
brother. He said, “Am I my brother’s
keeper?” he said to God. But God
knew. God knew the wicked thing that
Cain had done. And back in Proverbs 24:12
we are reminded that we are responsible for our fellow humans. We know how to get to heaven and they
don’t! Let’s not be like Cain and try to
get out of our responsibility. Let’s
follow what God says in Proverbs 24: 11&12.
Let’s help to warn those who may be facing death. We need to warn them because they don’t know
the dangerous situation that they are in.
And we know the good news of how to get to heaven. That is our job. That is our responsibility.
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