…but his blood will I require at your hand. – Ezekiel 3:18, Amplified Bible (AMP)

Let’s be brutally honest: most of us don’t believe Jesus’ words in Matthew 28:16-20 really apply to us. Oh, we give lip service to the importance of the Great Commission, and we give a mental nod to the idea that soul-winning and disciple-making are things that ought to be done. However, we don’t believe that soul-winning and disciple-making are things that we ought to be doing. If we did, we’d actually engage in these activities ourselves rather than letting weeks, months, and even years pass by without telling a single soul about Christ.

The reality is that soul-winning and disciple-making are activities every Christian must engage in, and if we don’t, we need to realize that God will hold us responsible for our callousness to the plight of souls heading for damnation.

As God tells us in Ezekiel 3:18-19 (AMP):

18 If I say to the wicked, You shall surely die, and you do not give him warning or speak to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

19 Yet if you warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered yourself.

For most of us, our entrance into Heaven will be bittersweet for a time. We will be overjoyed to be in Heaven with our Lord, and we will be thrilled to be free from the power, presense, and penalty of sin. But when Christ reviews our lives with us at the Judgment Seat, we will cry, and we won’t cry only for the sins He will bring back to our minds as we stand before His throne. We will also cry for the multitude of souls we let slip into damnation because the time wasn’t convenient for us to hand out a tract or to tell a soul about Christ.

Thankfully, God has already promised to wipe every tear away from our eyes. But, we can reduce the number of tears He will have to wipe away by being willing from now on to tell others about Christ. When the Holy Spirit prompts you to hand someone a tract or to tell someone how Christ saved your soul (and how He wants to save theirs), do it. Each time you do, you’ll replace a tear with a smile on the day your Savior takes account of your life at the Judgment Seat.

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