Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Do you know God?

Do you trust God?

Can you live with accepting that many of your questions may never be answered?

When the lost have questions and we have no answers, what do we say?

I can only say “Do you know me?” “Do you trust me?” “I only know what God has done for me!”

Living this life in Christ is a very personal journey and if they are to believe in our witness then we must never lie or exaggerate our importance. The “Good News” is only good news if it has been good to us.

They did not know us when we were lost, they can on know us as we are now. So how we express the love inside of us that made the difference may be all they have to see.

If we believe that repentance and confession is key to acceptance by faith, then understand that the lost will not confess to a person they do not know and trust.

• Psalm 5:11 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.
• Psalm 45:1 My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

We have to believe His Word is true, even if we do not understand how or why He chooses to save. The offer of salvation was a free will offering and the choice to accept that gift has to be one of free will also. Wanting it desperately for someone we love isn’t enough. All we can do is love them and never lie to them.

The hard part is supposed to be the easiest part. Make ourselves available to be known.

Everyone who knows anything about the gospels—and even those who don’t—knows that Jesus was a friend of sinners. He often drew the ire of the scribes and Pharisees for eating with sinners (Luke 15:2). Jesus clearly recognized that one of the insults hurled against him was that he was “a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” (Luke 7:34). As Christians we love to sing of this Pharisaical put-down because it means that Jesus is a friend to sinners like us. We also find ourselves challenged by Jesus’ example to make sure we do not turn away outsiders in a way that Jesus never would. (Alexandre Bida)

Do not fear quoting someone else’s good news.