After
eating a meal that I enjoyed in a good restaurant, where I got great service, I
would leave a good tip, and hopefully, you would accept it as a reflection
of our appreciation. But, we wouldn't be expressing our true appreciation
if we didn’t share something with you far more important than money could
ever buy. As a waitress or clerk your service has been good many times!
Well, there was someone else who also served us really well- Jesus Christ.
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“...the
Son of Man [Jesus] did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many.”
All
of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s expectations. The consequences
of our sin is
death, eternal separation from God in hell. But God loved us so much that
He wasn’t willing for any of us to experience that suffering. So Jesus
Christ came to earth as a human being to show us God’s love and to take
our punishment for us.
“Your
attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very
nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,  taking
the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found
in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-
-even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.”
The
greatest gift God offers us is eternal life. And there is only one way
we can receive it.
“And
this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is
in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of
God does not have life.”
Eternal
life can’t be obtained through any religion, denomination, or person; except
JESUS CHRIST, God’s Son. Too often we ignore Him and then wonder why life
hurts so bad. The truth of the matter is that life will never be what we
long for without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We were created
to have a loving relationship with God.
“Whoever
serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father
will honor the one who serves me."
Jesus
also promised to return to this earth one day. No one knows when that will
be. But we can be certain from the many signs that are coming to pass that
it won’t be much longer.
Will you
be ready when He comes back?
“`Therefore
keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But
understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night
the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his
house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man
will come at an hour when you do not expect  him.
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in
charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the
proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing
so when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of
all his possessions. But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself,
'My master is staying away a long time,' and he then begins to beat his
fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that
servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he
is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with
the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
I urge
you to receive Jesus as your Savior and serve Him as well as you’ve served
us. Your eternal destiny depends on it! God is ready to forgive anything
you have ever done. He wants to make you CLEAN,and
give you real, lasting, JOY!
“`Come
now, let us reason together,’ says the Lord. `Though your sins are like
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.’”
Let
me share a story with you. On one of our trips through Oklahoma we gave
a waitress a tract similar to this one. She took it politely and said “Oh,
I get lots of these! And I keep them all in a shoe box at home.” My heart
sank. Because on the judgment day she’ll stand before God, and if she’s
never accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior, she’ll spend eternity in hell
separated from Him. You see, just putting the tracts in a shoe box won’t
do a thing for her. She has to receive the Jesus the tract talks about
into her heart.
May I ask you
a few questions? |
| Have
you ever gotten a tract and put it in a "shoe box"? |
| Have
you
ever asked Jesus Christ to come into your heart or life? |
| If
not, would you like to begin serving Jesus by asking Him into your heart
right now? |
PLEASE
don’t put Jesus in a shoe box, let Him into your heart! It’s simple. Just
talk to God like you would talk to any customer who comes into your restaurant
or store and say something like this (The attitude of your heart is more
important than the exact words): |
| "Jesus,
I believe in you. I believe you served me by giving your life for me. I
bow my knees before you. I’m sorry for the sinful things I’ve done. Please
forgive me and come into my life. Make me the kind of person you want me
to be and help me serve YOU for the rest of my life. Thank you." |
| If
you prayed this prayer sincerely, then God has forgiven all your
past sins!
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John 1:8-10
"If
we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in
us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive
us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we
have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place
in our lives."
And,
Jesus Christ has come into your heart because He promised to do just that
if we asked Him in.
Revelation
3:20
"Here
I am! I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens
the door, I will come in and eat with him [her], and he [she] with
me."
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Your
Opinion Matters!
Have
you worked in the service industry (restaurants, stores, etc.)?
Do
you try to give excellent service?
What
do you think of Jesus' service to us?
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