(this is a repost of a previous blog post I did – my heart and message remain the same)
Dear Muslim friends,
Today my heart is heavy.
I’ve had tears in my eyes.
What has caused this? Why am I so emotional and feeling this pain today?
It is because of you, my dear Muslim friends, whom I love.
It is because I long with all of my heart for you to see Jesus – to see him for all that he really is.
I know you love him. All of my Muslim friends through the years have told me that. . .and I believe it. But I want to ask you with all respect,
“How can you love Jesus fully if you don’t know fully
all the truth about who he is and why he came?”
The Qur’an has several excellent things to say about Isa al Masih – Jesus. That is good, but there is more to learn. So much more. And it is such good news!
Yes, my Muslim friends, I know you love Jesus. Thank God! Wonderful!
But I want to tell you again how much Jesus loves you – because, in reality, that is far more important than how much you love him.
I beg you with all my heart to please listen:
Jesus loves you so much that he was willing to give up everything – even his own life – to see you become right with God.
He gave up all his glory in paradise to come to earth to make sure that your every sin could be forgiven – to wipe away all your shame. He came to take away your fear of the Day of Judgment and hellfire and rescue you from the power of Satan. He came to take away the gnawing, painful doubt of wondering if you have done enough – if you are good enough – to make it to Paradise.
I remember saying to a Muslim friend one time, “How would you like to know that every sin you have ever done could be forgiven? How would you like to know that you could go to bed tonight and know that if you did not wake up tomorrow, you would be in Paradise? Would you like to pray with me to:
- ask Jesus into your heart,
- to truly repent of your sins,
- believe that Jesus died for your sins and then rose from the dead,
- give your life to Jesus and follow him?”
I will never forget his answer. He said,
“Who could pass up an offer like that?”
I will end with this.
Two weeks ago I went to see a dear Muslim friend. He is one of the kindest, gentlest, most humble people I have ever met. The problem is, I know that as good as he is, his own goodness cannot get him to Paradise. God says it’s not enough.
Sin is so terrible that it must be punished. And God is so holy that He cannot allow even one sin into Paradise without the appropriate sacrifice to remove the stain and shame of that sin.
Like so many of you, my Muslim friend truly is a good person (by human standards). But like all of you – and like me – he still sins and for that reason, he needs a Savior.
He needs true forgiveness based on the sacrifice of Jesus.
So before we parted ways, I asked him this question:
“What if Jesus really DID die on the cross?”
And that, my friends, is the question I want to ask you as well:
What if God loves you that much?
Please think about it carefully because I am fully convinced that your eternal destiny depends upon your answer.
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