When Will We Realize, People Need The Lord?

Thursday, May 16, 2013   Romans 10:14-15

When Will We Realize, People Need The Lord?

Everyday they pass me by,

I can see it in their eyes.

Empty people filled with care,

Headed who knows where?

On they go through private pain,

Living fear to fear.

Laughter hides their silent cries,

Only Jesus hears.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord.

At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord.

When will we realize, people need the Lord?

I had two conversations recently that impressed upon me truth of Steve Green’s song, People Need the Lord. The first occurred the morning after a young man shot and killed his estranged wife and her parents. The killings took place in front of the shooter’s two young children. A short time later the shooter took his own life. Within a brief period of time four lives came to a violent end, and two children have indelible horror etched into their memory. The morning after the shootings the mother of the shooter called me; she needed to talk to a pastor. In the days following the killings, the intense pain, dysfunction and violence that was normal for this family was made public.

As has become usual following incidents similar to this, there will be calls for more regulations for firearms. Perhaps more laws will help prevent future acts of violence, but “When will we realize, people need the Lord?”

The second conversation took place in a Hospice residence. The patient was sedated and slept the entire time I was there. Sitting on a sofa near the bed, I talked for almost an hour with his daughter. The patient was at peace with his life. His wife of sixty-four years had died eighteen months previously and he was ready, no eager, to join her in that place Jesus has prepared for his followers. The daughter was also very much at peace. Her faith in Christ was comforting her in the present moment and her Christian hope assured her Jesus will receive her father into his loving arms.

What a contrast between these two families.

There are certainly great benefits that our government can bring to our society to make it safer and more enriching for all people. However nothing in our government’s charter can match the great promise of God that “anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2Corinthians 5:17).

Steve Green sings, “People need the Lord. They must hear the words of life only we can share.” And, the Apostle Paul replies, “How can they hear about him unless someone tells them?” (Romans 10:14b).

Will you tell them?

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

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