A new perspective

“People are dying and going to hell.” This is a quote that Dr. Bob III says before every chapel service. I had always thought that this was a rather morbid way to start a service and quite honestly, I always pass off this saying as an old man beating a point to the ground.
Until this morning…
My cousin called crying, to tell me that a mutual friend of ours had hung himself in his garage yesterday morning. To say the least I was shocked. He had never struck me as someone that would commit suicide. He was a senior in high school and a star football player. What would induce him to take his own life… I can’t imagine.
As I was going through all the emotions that followed, a thought suddenly hit me. He was not saved. He had apparently reached a point where he thought there was nothing worth living for… in essence he had no hope. As I thought of this another thought hit me, “in all the times that I talked to him… in all those times, I knew he wasn’t saved… and yet I never once shared the gospel with him.” I mean he knew I am a Christian and that there are things that I don’t say and do, but never once did I share the hope of Jesus Christ. I had to ask myself “WHY?!” what was I afraid of?! I knew he had issues and yet I never cared enough to share with him the true hope. I know that just my sharing the gospel with him probably wouldn’t induced him to get saved just… but the seed would have been sown again.
Anyways, if ya’ll could pray for his family. His mom died 5 years ago of cancer so it’s just his sister and dad left. And his 15 yr old sister is the one that found him so she is having a really hard time of it.

In Christ,
Kristin Hanson