📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. While God is in control and doesn't need us for anything, He delights in using us. When He uses us to do His will, He is glorified. In the Book of Esther, if Queen Esther had not acted, God's will to save the Jewish people would still have happened. However, Esther, would have lost out on rewards, suffered great loss and a chance to glorify God in her actions. Esther 4:13-14 New King James Version 13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” The nearness of the Rapture is a call to action. :heart: Who and when the Lord saves is His business and responsibility! Wanting to stand with Jesus is not selfish, but a divine desire that He also shares! Indeed, many days have been offered to men! Whether prior to or after the Rapture, salvation is given to all! Men will either respond or not, irrespective of what I do or say! God's cup of patience and prudent administration of His will declare the times and seasons of God! If God destines my help it is to my benefit! God can save anyone without my assistance! The church and evangelists role in God's salvation plan I believe is often given an elevated position! His grace and not by our hand! TR I understood that you felt selfish because of unsaved people. However, how many people are just not listening? I think God gave a lot of people (if not almost everyone) a lot of chances. I do hope there will be an opening soon. An unveiling or apocalypse, if you will. 😉 Revelation 4:1 New King James Version The Throne Room of Heaven 4 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
