Never Give Up On A Lost Soul

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? — Luke 15:4:

Gerhard De Toit of the Canadian Revival Fellowship tells of a missionary who was witnessing to a cancer patient a the hospital in Japan. This missionary would come everyday and plead with him to receive Christ. But the patient continually rejected the Gospel.

After going everyday for a week the missionary got discouraged and decided he wouldn’t go to the hospital that day.  However, the next day he decided he would try one more time to win the patient to Christ.

When he went to the patient’s hospital room, the room was empty and the bed neatly made. He asked a nurse where the patient was. The nurse said, “Oh, he died night.  Did you know him?” The missionary said he had been visiting him recently. The nurse said, “The only thing he left was this little diary. Would you like it?” The missionary took the diary and began to read some of the entries.

The dying man wrote about the missionary who visited him everyday and told him about Jesus.  The last entry in the diary read:  “I am looking forward to the missionary coming today. When the missionary comes today I will receive Christ.”  But the missionary never came that day.

Never give up on seeking to bring that lost soul to Jesus.