To Rescue

DEVOTION

PROVERBS

 TO RESCUE

Prov 24:11-12

11 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. 12 If you say, "But we knew nothing about this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?

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Are we the only ones who see this truth? Our friends of old, the commentaries of ancient times all look at this from rising up to testify for a person unjustly accused of some crime. That if we stand by within speaking up, their blood is on our hands. But do they only see the physical life of man? This proverb speaks directly to the people who have yet to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They are being led away by Satan to their death. They are staggering toward their slaughter. Should they not hear the truth, see the truth, respond to the truth in the affirmative, they will be cast into the lake of burning sulfur, doomed to experience the second death. If we say we did not know about this destiny of the unsaved, non-repented person. If we say we do not know anything about the fate of those who have not accepted Jesus, will not God weigh our heart? Will he not perceive we care nothing about their destiny? How can we say we love the Lord and not share his grace with those condemned, by their sin, to death? It is not that he will repay us with death, or that we will get less reward. This truth is about the saved and the unsaved. The saved will receive eternal life the unsaved will receive death. The done or the doing is either accepting or rejecting Jesus. He will repay everyone for which ever they do, accept or reject. But if they have not made the choice or had the opportunity to make the choice then their blood may well be on our hands if we do not say something to them. God does perceive our heart, and knows if we care about those who have not heard. If we are content with us four and no more, what then? If we say, that is not our gift, then we say God has not gifted us with the ability of speech. Who of us cannot talk? Then why do we not speak up when the opportunity is there? Why do we not say something about Jesus when we are with those who need to make that choice? Now it is true that if they refuse, if they do not what to hear, if they say, I do not believe that stuff, well then speak no more about him. Do not cast our pearl before them anymore. Their blood is on their own hands, but we have done what we have been instructed to do, give them the choice to make. We have made every effort to rescue them from death. Yes, the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts of sin and need of repentance. But this, as well as many other scriptures, makes it clear we have a part to play in the rescue of those condemned to death. So let us be in the business of rescue.