"If by any means I...might save some of them" (Rom. 11:14)
St. Paul's motivation to save some souls by any means , made him sacrifice much, and as a result innumerable people got saved. Even after 2000 thousand years his epistles continue to be awesome, and all over the world, souls are not only getting saved but are also being transformed. Any sacrifice we make to rescue even one soul from hell-fire is worth the while.
When a certain child of GOD was going around distributing tracts, he knocked at the door of a house. After a while, a man opened the door. The Christian offered him a tract. The man of the house angrily snatched the tract and banged the door shut on his face. Anxious to know why the man had been upset , the Christian went back to the house after a few days. This time the man had a smile on the face when he opened the door. He invited the Christian in and showed him the fan from which he had hung a rope to commit suicide. "I was been in the act of putting my head in the noose that day, when the doorbell rang," he said. I thought, 'Anyway, I'm going to hell. Why might I spend all the time wondering who might have rung the bell? Let me see who is standing outside and then proceed with my plan,' and answered the door.
The sight of a man with a tract annoyed me and I was going to chuck the paper into the waste paper basket when the words, 'YOU ARE SOMEONE SPECIAL' caught my eye. I paused to glance at the contents of the tract.
As I read, a light dawned in my heart. I gave my heart to the LORD, and abandoned all my foolish plans.
Dear child of GOD, do all you can, by all means and at any cost, by all means and at any cost, to save souls from eternal destruction. Don't go to heaven empty-handed. What a joy it will be to be welcomed at the pearly gates by the souls you led to CHRIST! What a thrill that will give to your spirit all eternity.
To a dying world today
Bringing hope to hopeless people
And sharing salvation's way."
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