What about compassion? Are you praying to God that He will save souls from the coming judgment? Have you meditated on the fact of your newbirth?--provided you're born again to a new and living hope. Was the gospel presented to you in a manner such as this, "You'll have your best life now," or "Jesus came to this world to fill an empty space in your heart," I'm sorry listener, if you heard a gospel such as this or that--then you didn't hear the gospel that Jesus Christ proclaimed. Because Jesus Christ proclaimed "Good News,--for the age to come; not good news for this temporal and fleeting life." If you think you were saved by one of those gospel messages, it's safe to say that you're likely not born again and that you were told a lie about who and what Jesus really is about.
But, if you've been shown just how wicked you really are. If by God's grace and mercy, you've seen for yourself that you really deserve to be judged and condemned into the eternal Lake of Fire because you are utterly sinful. If these things are true and you've pleaded for God's mercy and grace. If you've cried to God to save your soul from the coming judgment. If you've noticed a radical change in your nature--if you hate the sin that you used to love--if you desire to really know who God is and not just know that God is--if these things are really true in your life, then it is likely that you have experienced new birth and that you are a new creation.
Are you praying for the Lord to send laborers into His harvest? Do you pray to God that He will provide you with opportunities to share the hope of Christ to people in your scope of life? Jesus came to save sinners. He came to find his lost sheep. He came to find the coin that was lost. Will you pray and desire that God will send more workers into his harvest to reap his chosen people?--Jesus prayed this way and he wants us to do this as well . . . "The harvest is great enough," he remarked to his disciples, "but the reapers are few. So you must pray to the Lord of the harvest to send men out to reap it." ~Matthew 9:37-38~
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