Always Ask This Follow-up Question – Sunday Thought For The Day

Saturday while shopping at a big box store, my wife and I asked a young man employed there for assistance.  The young gentleman was polite and professional.  He used phrases like: “yes sir, I’ll be glad to,” etc.

I thanked him for his assistance, and as he turned to walk away he lowered his voice and said: “I like your hat sir.”  I was wearing a ball cap that had MAGA emblazoned on it in large gold letters.  I responded: “Great President.  We thank God for him.”  The young gentleman responded, amen!

As he turned to walk away, I asked him: “Are you a Christian?”  He responded, “yes I am.”  But, I didn’t let it end there.  I then asked, if he was a “born again Christian?”

At first he said, that he was, but literally seconds later he said, he wasn’t entirely sure.  He told me that he had been baptized as a child, and that he was going to be baptized again in the very near future.  I took that to mean his church had a baptismal service scheduled.  In response to my direct question he also told me that he and his wife read the bible together, prayed together and that his 13-year old daughter also reads her bible and prays each evening.  I said my wife and I have family devotions together every evening, and that our son and his wife do the same.  I said but; that’s not what makes us Christians.

I shared that Jesus Himself said: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:16 KJV)  I shared several other verses that related to being truly saved.  I then instructed him to read Romans  Chapter 10 with his family, per how to be truly saved, i.e., born again.  I told him to pray as the Apostle Paul instructs in Romans 10:9-13.  He took a piece of paper from his pocket and wrote down what I was saying.

We exchanged phone numbers.  The young man exuded love for God, the Word of God, and a desire to walk in fellowship with the Lord.  I am convinced of two things: 1) He will call me; and 2) He will tell me he and his family prayed to truly accept Christ as their Savior and Lord.

My friends, we cannot just casually accept that a person is truly saved just because they tell us they’re a Christian.  You can’t throw a bag of potato chips in a crowed store without hitting several people who will tell you they’re going to heaven, but who have no personal testimony of their accepting Christ as their Savior.  Infant baptism and the false belief that a person has been a Christian all of their life is a lie of Satan.  And we validate the lie if we do not question a person(s) to make sure of what they are basing their belief upon.  Of course, that also means that we must truly be born again ourselves.

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