I want to type out something I read last week that really brought a real revival to my heart in the area of telling others I know about Jesus. Here it is in hopes it will also encourage you as well. Here is the excerpt from “Don’t Waste Your Life” that really spoke to my heart.

(Please be aware before reading: it is graphic. And may be hard for you to read. )

Here is John Piper -

“The closer I look at the individuals in this world war two history, the more I felt passion that my life would count, that I would be able to die well.

As rainy mornig wore into afternoon and the fighting bogged down, the Marines continued to take casualties. Often it was the corpsman (medics) themselves who died as they tried to perserve life. William Hoopes of Chattannooga, was crouching beside a medic named Kelly, who put his head above a protective ridge and placed binoculors to his eyes - just for an instant - to spot a sniper who was peppering his area. In that instant the sniper shot him through the adams apple. Hoopes, a pharmacist mate himself, struggled frantically to save his friend. “I took my forceps and reached into his neck to grasp the artery and pinch it off”, Hoopes recalled. “His blood was spurting. He had no speech but his eyes were on me. He new I was trying to save his life. I tried everything in the world. I couldn’t do it. I tried. The blood was so slippery. I couldn’t get the artery. I was trying so hard. And all the while he just looked at me. He looked directly into my face. The last thing he did as the blood spurts became less and less was to pat me on the arm as if to say, “That’s all right” and then he died.

In this heart breaking moment I want to be Hoopes and I want to be Kelly. I want to be able to say to suffering perishing people, “I tried everything in the world….. I was trying so hard”. I want to be able to say to those around me when I die “It’s all right to live is Christ, and die is gain.”

That convicted my heart last week in such a real way. I had to call some people that I loved and tell them again I was praying for them and that I loved them. I plead with them to come to Jesus. I wasn’t able to lead them to the Lord, I felt clumsy and bad about how I said it and felt very helpless to show anyone the real Way. One actually hung up on me….and felt my heart was so heavy for them I cried, wept in fact, over the lost. I want so bad to see them and live with them in heaven one day. God forbid, one day when I see them and they haven’t become Believers I want to be able to say “I did all that I could do! I tried so hard”. And while their dying eyes are on me they will know I tried with all my heart.

I hope this encourages you to tell others about Jesus, as it did me. . . no matter what the result that you do all that you can do while there is still time left to do it.

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