I had a waitress at a restaurant recently whose name was Bella. So I asked her, “Is that short for Isabella?” I know some folks who named their daughter Isabella but refer to her as “Bella.” Talk to people. Strike up a conversation with them. Once they are comfortable with you and you build rapport with them, it is easy to “pop the question.”
No, not that question! Before popping that question, make sure you are in love and it’s going to be a one-time, lifelong commitment.
“Bella, what do you think happens when you die?” We were off and rolling.
She told me there are seven lessons that you must learn during your lifetime to be right with God. Okay. The next question was simple. So I asked her, “What are those seven lessons?” She let me know that her mom knew three of them: patience, kindness, and one other one.
Wait just a minute. Hold on here. What kind of God would take the time to create us and not tell us explicitly what it takes to be right with Him? That does not make any sense. There would be no love in that Creator if He just left us hanging without any direction for figuring out why we are here.
And that is what I explained to Bella. God actually made it very simple. He laid out in His Word how we can be right with Him.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1 John 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Bella now knows the truth about how to be saved. Go and give that truth to someone today.
Until the nets are full,
P.S. I went back to that same restaurant last night and was able to talk to Bella again! My waitress this time was Kai. She grew up Buddhist. She said that Jesus was the Savior for “some” people. Did you catch that? Trust me; I am having a lot of fun planting seeds for Jesus at this restaurant!
P.P.S. As devastating as the fires are in California, they will not even remotely compare to the fires and torment of the Lake of Fire. I listened to a very famous Christian speaker last week who said that when the Bible talks about God tossing Satan into the Lake of Fire, it is just metaphorical. Maybe take a look at Revelation 20 again. That verse is not even remotely close to being metaphorical. And at the Great White Throne judgment, people will be tossed into that un-metaphorical Lake of Fire as well. Time to man the battleships and get serious about soul-winning this year.
