“I write to discover the past” – Amy Tan
I find that quote in an old Reader’s Digest. (October 1998)
I write to serve the Lord Jesus Christ from conversion to…
My conversion took place in the year 1958 in Germany. That is almost 55 years ago!
THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS WHY WE SHOULD SERVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Here are three:
1. The Lord Jesus Christ died for all.
We are reading that in Second Corinthians 5:14.
This is the story of stories and this blessed Gospel story needs to be told everywhere. In 1966 I went from Germany to THAILAND to tell the story that the Lord Jesus Christ died for all in THAILAND. I went also from Thailand to NEW ZEALAND to tell the story that the Lord Jesus died for all here in NEW ZEALAND. The Lord Jesus Christ died for all. Each has the right to know about it. I know that all need a Savior. I know that Jesus died for ALL. I know also that I must tell everyone!
CHACHOENGSAO / THAILAND: SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE
Picture / Allan Collingwood
2. We have the moral obligation to live for others.
In Second Corinthians 5:15 it says “…, that those who live should no longer live for themselves…”
I must live an unselfish life. I must live a life of service. I must not serve self. I must serve others. I must leave my selfish way of life and give my life to the Lord Jesus ChrIst and serve Him. I belong to Him. He must have all I possess. Why? He has saved me, bought me and redeemed me.
Why are we saved? We are saved to serve. We are saved to serve our Master, the Lord Jesus Christ and our neighbors, not ourselves.
I am reading again and again about happiness. An unselfish life is the happiest life. Do you believe that too?
3. We are ambassadors with the word of reconciliation.
Second Corinthians 5:18-21
Verse 19, “And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”
What comes to your mind, when you hear the word reconciliation? That two people were at war? Yes, but who were the two parties? The two parties were God and the sinner.
It is the task of true followers of the Lord Jesus Christ to bring the news of reconciliation to the sinner hiding from God. The Bible calls us ambassadors. An ambassador is an official representative of a government. Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are official representatives of the government of heaven.
I write to serve the Lord Jesus Christ from conversion to death or His second coming.
I remember the day of my conversion, but I do not Know when I die and when the Lord is coming again.
But I know that the love of Christ compels me. In Second Corinthians 5:14 it says, “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.” To compel means to impel, to drive forward.
