Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
–Colossians 4:5-6
You’ve probably heard of a little animal called a lemming. Lemmings are very peculiar creatures with a very interesting behavior. When their population density becomes too high, lemmings will group together and march off a cliff and into the ocean in search of a new place to live. That’s the end!
Now for most people, that behavior seems strange. But is it any stranger than the behavior of those people who pursue life in something other than Christ only to fall off the spiritual cliff and into a Christless existence?
So what should we do? We see people who die without Christ and the thousands and thousands of others who follow. Do we sit and watch them go? Or do we dedicate our lives to showing others the way to turn from their destruction and find salvation in Jesus Christ?
To me, the choice is easy: We urgently point the lost to Christ. We warn them about the result of their current path. We show them the way to Jesus. And we pray that God would transform their hearts so that they may come to know Him and have eternal life!
LOVE THE LOST BY URGENTLY POINTING THEM TOWARD A SAVING RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST!
