Day 40: Honor the Sacrifice

Oftentimes, sharing out faith isn't necessarily easy. We sometimes wonder if we are offending people, and we worry of what they will think of us.

Usually, we care more about what people will think of us than what God will think of us, and there is something definitely wrong with that picture.

Today, I was able to make it to morning bible study, which is ALWAYS a blessing straight from God, and we finished up the epistles with the last half of the book of Jude.

We focused on how we need to focus on the word of God so that we are not distracted by everything that is there for us in the world.

To keep it short, the piece of the message that stood out to me the most were the following verses:

“But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Be merciful to those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.” Jude 1: 20-23


I think I was hit the most with this because I know people who know that I'm a Christian and who don't believe what I believe. I know people who respect my faith, people who are apathetic about it, and people who downright despise it. And a lot of the time, I wonder what to do. God outlines it perfectly here when He shows that we are called to build ourselves up in faith and prayer as we wait for the mercy of Christ. BUT, in that time we are called to be merciful, watching out for our brothers, and sisters, who know the Lord, but may not be tracking with Him all the time. We are also called to pull others from the fire and to show mercy, mixed with fear, to others...hating even the appearance of the sin in the world.


What God taught me is that we are called to walk in prayer and build up our faith SO THAT we can go out and share what we know through mercy, compassion, and an honest desire to save people in this world. He did not come merely to die, but to save through sacrifice.


We need to take that sacrifice seriously, and reach into the lives of the lost as He call us to.




In Christ,






Lilia