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My favorite definition of courage is this: Courage applies to moral strength that makes a person face danger, trouble or pain steadily and without showing fear.

Have you thought of life this way? As humans and as Christians, we have, on average, about seventy to eighty years to prepare for an eternity. Our lives down here are just a dressing room for what is yet to come. What would you like to hear the Master say when you meet Him face to face at the pearly gates? Just imagine the questions that you will be asked and reflect on the answers you will give. Are these the kind of answers that will get you through the pearly gates?

You can’t say, “Well I was sick and couldn’t get around, couldn’t go to church or couldn’t do this or that.”

All of those things running through your mind right now are just excuses.

Let me make two points right now:

1.People, for the most part, find a way to do exactly what they want to do.

2.There is a reason for whatever you go through in life.

You might say that you went to church every Sunday or least most Sundays. Well, let me ask you a question. What did you do with the knowledge and the charges you received from church? Faith, without works, is dead. You, as a born-again, must rescue others. You are charged with the responsibility of acting like a “first responder,” a first responder being one who is trained. You said you went to church most Sundays, what did you do with what you learned? You, as a Christian, must be an ambassador, a representative with a special assignment. Maybe, you would rather receive the title of the “first ambassador?” Both titles imply that, without being told, you will help a person in need and it must be done with no expectations other than that you are doing what you were put on this earth to do.

Let me ask you a serious question. What have you done with all the knowledge, religion and spiritual growth that you have received in your lifetime?

You might say, “Well, I’m saved and I know I’m saved.”

That is not enough. The reason you are blessed is so you can reach out to someone else and make them a better person and to make this world a better world. Just think for a moment. What would this world be like if every Christian would help one lost soul find Jesus Christ?