So the other night during our family devotional, our dad asked us what we want to say we accomplished by the time we get to heaven. My sister answered, "I don't want to have wasted any talents."
This question reminded me about a book I read two years ago before I went on a missions trip to Uganda. It's called "One Thing You Can't Do In Heaven" by Mark Cahill. The "One Thing" is evangelism. Mark Cahill talks about how we can't evangelize once we die.
Cahill made an interesting point. He said that evangelism is like God giving us pocketfuls of tickets to Heaven. Our job is to hand them out. Some of the reasons why we are afraid to evangelize is we are to proud, afraid of rejection, or don't know what to say. But we have a pocket, and that pocket is full of tickets to Heaven. We need to remember that just because we hand out the ticket, doesn't mean that it will be used. We should look at every person we encounter as someone to share the gospel with. We should be able to stand before the Lord and say, "I did everything you asked. My pockets are empty. I wasted nothing."
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