"As I looked out of the window, I seemed to see them all... millions of people all around me given up to their drink and their pleasure, their dancing and their music, their business and their anxieties, their politics and their troubles. Ignorant- willfully ignorant in many cases- and in other instances knowing all about the truth and not caring at all."William Booth
(founder of the Salvation Army)
As Christians, people who have accepted Jesus as the King and saviour and are forgiven from sin, we have a duty, a calling, a final commandment from Jesus Himself to tell the Good News, spread the word, love the unlovable and find the lost!
William Booth saw what was happening in the world. People may believe that the world is a better place then the time that William Booth saw this, but the world is still full of lying politicians, longing for power, still full of people oppressing one another, still full of sorrow and suffering, addictions and more. Today's world is still full of hurting, lost people. It is still full of the people William Booth looked out on and saw a vision for those lost people.
"In that ocean I thought I saw myriads of poor human beings plunging and floating, shouting and shrieking, cursing and struggling and drowning; and as they cursed and screamed they rose and shrieked again, and then some sank to rise no more."
William Booth saw this and saw how much in need of saving our world still is.
"And I saw out of this dark angry ocean, a mighty rock that rose up with it’s summit towering high above the black clouds that overhung the stormy sea. And all around the base of this great rock I saw a vast platform. Onto this platform, I saw with delight a number of the poor struggling, drowning wretches continually climbing out of the angry ocean. And I saw that a few of those who were already safe on the platform were helping the poor creatures still in the angry waters to reach the place of safety.On looking more closely I found a number of those who had been rescued, industriously working and scheming by ladders, ropes, boats and other means more effective, to deliver the poor strugglers out of the sea. Here and there were some who actually jumped into the water, regardless of the consequences in their passion to "rescue the perishing." And I hardly know which gladdened me the most- the sight of the poor drowning people climbing onto the rocks reaching a place of safety, or the devotion and self-sacrifice of those whose whole being was wrapped up in the effort for their deliverance.As I looked on, I saw that the occupants of that platform were quite a mixed company. That is, they were divided into different "sets" or classes, and they occupied themselves with different pleasures and employments. But only a very few of them seemed to make it their business to get the people out of the sea."
The thing is do we remember that we were once saved (and still saved and safe) and help with the saving of others still lost, drowning in the sea.
Are you one of those who care so much about those lost, dieing people that you would jump in and risk your life for others?
Could you care enough to sacrifice everything for the Salvation of someone else, someone you love... What about someone you don't?
A call to all Christians out there...
Do you Care? Do you sit 'Idly by while the heedless millions die?'
