{"id":346,"date":"2019-07-10T12:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/?p=346"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:34:24","slug":"i-guess-it-just-doesnt-get-any-better-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/2019\/07\/10\/i-guess-it-just-doesnt-get-any-better-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"I GUESS IT JUST DOESN\u2019T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I recently read the accomplishments of an aging man, who, as a young man, established himself quite well in life to train and equip people with specialty skills used in the movie making industry.\u00a0 While his accolades are many, that\u2019s really all he has when he leaves this life.\u00a0 Yes, his legacy will live on but so far as his eternal destiny, one expressed it dimly when he said \u201cI guess it just doesn\u2019t get any better than that.\u201d\u00a0 How sad to make a name for oneself and lose your soul.\u00a0 \u2026Or worse yet, reaching out to such ones and seeing such a care-free attitude about what matters most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I reflect upon our work among\nunreached people in hard to reach places I am reminded of a thought that\noccurred to me over and over again as I thought about the fate of lost\ntribesmen.  Up until that time in the\nhistory of the world such ones never had an opportunity to embrace the gospel\nbecause no one ever came to bring them the message.  I\u2019d often ask\u2026 \u201cIs the destiny of lost men really their fate?  \u2026Or is it our failure to do something in\nreaching them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would we casually say \u201ctoo bad?\u201d  Would we express of the lost as was said of the man who achieved great\naccomplishments in life, \u201cI guess it just doesn\u2019t get any better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This summer as we get to minister to hundreds of kids, our hearts are touched to think that the words we speak may bring about the awareness of their need for Christ.\u00a0 While our focus of ministry is that of mobilizing Harvest laborers, we can\u2019t help but see, foremost, the responsibility of pointing little ones to God.\u00a0 Yes, their eternity lies in the balance\u2026 they need Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each day provides opportunity for\neach of us to share our faith with those in our pathway.  We must be ready always to reach out to those\nperishing, just as Ezekiel felt the weight of responsibility in watching for\nthe souls of those around him.  Might the\nconstraining love of Christ motivate us in our day to day witness, rather than\nseeing the lost dying in their sin and saying of them, \u201cI guess it just doesn\u2019t\nget any better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently read the accomplishments of an aging man, who, as a young man, established himself quite well in life to train and equip people with specialty skills used in the movie making industry.\u00a0 While his accolades are many, that\u2019s really all he has when he leaves this life.\u00a0 Yes, his legacy will live on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}