Have you ever had someone ask you a question that, even though you knew the answer, in that moment you didn't know the answer? This happened to me recently, as I was talking with a new Christian who was walking away from a life of gang banging and drug dealing. This man was talking very passionately about what God was doing in his life, and I was just trying to fuel that fire that God had set inside of him. We were having an amazing conversation, then he stopped and looked at me and said, "why do you care so much?" I must admit I was taken aback by this question...a question to which I should have an answer. I said, "that's a deep question, I don't have an immediate answer for you...I need to search my heart so that I can answer it honestly."
I went home and the questioned rolled over and over in my spirit. I suppose that I had lost sight of the why I was doing this and was set on the how to accomplish it. This saddened me...So I looked back at the beginning, the day I fell in love with Him. I began to replay the early days of this ministry and I remembered a lady who was a prostitute and a crack addict; she came to group and as we began she threw her paper down and said, "This is just too much!!" I said, "Too much what?" She said, "Too much God!!" and she grabbed her things and quickly walked out. We prayed for her after group, convinced that we would never see her again.
About a week later she just walked into the church weeping, and she said, "Help me, I just want to die! I need for you to pray with me!" So we went into the sanctuary and knelt down at the altar, and I led her to the Lord. She wrapped her arms around me and said, "THANK YOU so much!" I hugged her tightly and I remember she was so thin from her addiction that I could feel her ribs and in that moment the Lord spoke very clearly to me. He said, "What you do unto the least of these, you do unto me." and it was then that I realized, I had my arms around Jesus.
So I went back and told Ricky, "Jesus gave me everything; He gave me His life. I could never repay Him for what He's done for me, but I know how much He loves you, and the greatest gift I could give Him is you, and the greatest gift I could give you is Him." "When I love you, I love Him...When I minister to you, I minister to Him...When I feed you, I feed Him" That's why I care
Do you love Him?
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