How can one person ever matter? How can a poor college student ever make a difference? Should she drop everything and devote her life to a cause? Should she wait until she has graduated, until she has a degree? Should she forget it all?
1 Timothy 4:12 says:
"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
But my question is, how? How do we get the strength to do what we believe is right? Do we save the world or just ourselves?
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the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair...
...therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us...
[hebrews 12:1]
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"Do we save the world or just ourselves?"
Be careful... do you think you saved yourself? No... you did nothing of the sort. We cannot save ourselves... CHRIST saves us. You cannot save the world... that is God's job.
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him" (John 6:44 ESV).
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast" (Eph 2:8-9 ESV).
"[Jesus] saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life" (Titus 3:5-7 ESV).
We don't do anything... we can't save people... and we weren't commanded to. We were told to go out and preach the good news of Christ (Matthew 28:18-20). Making disciples doesn't entail "saving" anyone... we witness-- God saves.
I know that if it was MY personal responsibility to save my friend Jeremy or Kari... and if they go to Hell, it is my fault because I didn't "win their soul"... I'd be SO STRESSED!! I mean... that's a big responsibility! But thankfully that isn't my concern! That's God's concern. Our job is to witness.
And also I will say that the phrase "Witness often, use words when necessary" is NOT biblical. That was from some saint guy... Jesus always used words. We need to tell people of the good news... not just live it out, but also teach others.
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