Books
Would You?
By Linda Sedrick Pearson
Two teenage males stand on the sidewalk. One speaks more than the other. The second young man shakes his head and begins to walk away. As he turns, the first young man notices a car coming towards them. He grabs the second young man and throws himself between him and the approaching car. Gunshots ring out in the first young man falls.
You see, this young man was a Christian, but he had been a gang member. That was until someone cared enough to share Jesus with him. He now went into the streets and shared Jesus with the gang members he knew, including those who before had been his enemies.
This second young man was a member of a rival gang. He wouldn’t listen to the words the first young man told him. He didn’t want any part of this Jesus. At least not until the first young man saved his life.
“Why?” The second young man asked the first.
“Because,” the first young man gasps weakly. “I knew that if you had died at that moment, you would have been condemned to the burning fire of eternal damnation. I didn’t want you to die lost and I know that I am prepared and ready.” And with that he breathed his last here on earth.
The second young man weeps with all his heart. He has never had anyone to love him that much. He reaches over and gently removes the book the young man holds in his hand. It flips open to John chapter 15 and his eyes rest up on verse 13.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
This is a true story. These events really happened.
Think about it. Would you? Would you give your life for someone that you had considered an enemy?
