For our brief stay on earth, our main work as believers is to be fruitful. God does it all, we merely bow down as His humble servants. And even that is done in His power! The Bible tells us the "harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few." (Matthew 9:37)
In reading Francis Schaeffer's book, "Escape From Reason", the following reminded and disturbed me greatly: "The Bible teaches that, though man is hopelessly lost, he is not nothing. Man is lost because he is separated from God, his true reference point, by true moral guilt. But he never will be nothing. Therein likes the horror of his lostness. For man to be lost, in all his uniqueness and wonder, is tragic." And I would add, how horrible to be made in the image of the Creator with whom you never get to spend eternity.
A few days later, I read this in Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening" which also speaks as to the seriousness of the hopeless situation of man without God. "Sinners are perishing for lack of knowledge; he who loiters may find his skirts crimson with the blood of souls. Jesus gave both his hands to the nails, how can I keep back one of mine from His blessed work?" "Up idle heart; stretch out thy hand to work, or uplift it to pray; heaven and hell are in earnest, let me be so..."
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