What I could've missed!

Had an interesting day today. My wife and I took some of our kids and friends to the Mall so they could spend their Christmas money. While there we meet a man named Meymaneh from Turkey. My wife, Andrea, always ready, thought wisely to ask where he was from. Interestingly, that's really all it took. With a little question, Meymaneh opened up. He told us how he, his wife and brother came to America to study and earn a degree. Within in a couple more months, they would be finished with school here and head back to their home country. In the process of our conversation, I asked him if he was a follower of Isa-Mesih, (Jesus). He said yes, but that he didn't fulling understand it all. Yet, he is very interested and is searching for truth. He desires to know more.

This truley amazes me. We could live our lives in the comfortability of our own thought-made kiosks and miss all that is around us. We could of throughly enjoyed our day at the Mall lounging around without one ounce of effort to make our Lord a part of it, and for the most part, that would be the norm. We can have our morning devotions, pray over every meal, listen to Christian Radio wherever we go and enjoy our many bible studies and still miss out on all that we could be doing to bring glory to God. We could have, (and usually are) missed out on Meymaneh.

What is it all for anyway? What are our morning devotions for? What is all our bible studies for, all this knowledge gaining for? Is it just for us? So that we can be comfortable knowing?
No, no, no. May it not be so! May it be for Him! The One and Only True God! May it be to bring Him glory. That others may know. We must open our eyes and break down our thought-made kiosks. We have an Eternity Past and more God and we continue to try and put him in a box made up of our selfish culture and lazy personal habits. We must see Him as He is and live our lives as if He is Lord over it. We must begin to realize what's at stake. We must begin to care.
The story ends with Drea and I encouraging Meymaneh to read the Gosepel of John. He told us both he would, so tommorrow I will be driving back in hopes to give him a bible. Please pray for Meymaneh and his family.

"These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.