Do I know you???

The David Alliance

 

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In 1964 a hand written letter by a 12 year old girl was mailed from South America to London England. It had no postage and was missing much of its address… but it had just enough evidence on the front of the envelope to make sure it made it all the way to London and to the intended recipient… in fact when the postal handlers saw the outside of the envelope they themselves paid for the postage and made sure it got into the hands of the person it was intended to get to… And where did it land? right into the hands of a 90 year old man named none other then Winston Churchill - what was on the outside of the envelope? It was addressed to the greatest man in the world London England… that was it, but everyone knew who it was intended to go to.

If I was going to mail a letter to your block, or your work place… and I couldn’t put your name on it I could only put a description of who you were, what would I write.

Oh Im sure in the past when I was younger I would have received letters addressed to the cocky arrogant kid, to the barefoot water skiing freak, to the skateboard nut, …please make sure this gets into the hands to the 17 year old Girl crazy kid… oh they all would have landed in my lap. But what about today… how would you get it to me? How would that letter arrive to YOUR work… knowing it was for you. 

 

Please send this letter to the guy who slacks off and pushes his 15 minute break into 25 minutes…

Please send this letter to the guy who is always right

Please send this letter to the guy who has the wandering eye whenever a woman walks by

Please get this letter to the guy who talks about Religion but has no relationship with God…

 

In Acts 19… an unusual story pops up about some demons who know Paul and Jesus but not the 7 dudes who were trying to cast them out

Acts 19:15 the demons answered the 7 sons and said “Paul I know, Jesus I know… but who are you?”, and then the demon possessed man jumped on them and beat the snot out of them.

Matt. 7

21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’…

 

Lawlessness - disobedience….

So in verse 21 it does not say you won’t enter heaven because you didn’t look like a Follower of Christ, or that you didn’t use his spiritual gifts or powers… it will be because you did not obey him… you were not in alignment with him.

So let me pose my question with some new insights… what if a letter showed up to your work that said “to the guy who is obedient to Christ”…. would it land in your lap? I sure hope so. 

What about your neighborhood?