The Angels Are Rejoicing

 Ten were saved at VBS. One more was saved Sunday morning at the end of our worship service. There is a story behind the one this morning. I'd like to share it with you. 

In my prayers this morning, I sensed that someone who would attend the worship service later was faking it. They knew they were not truly converted even though they went through the perfunctory motions as a child. I prayed asking God to remind me of this during the message if it was really from Him. 

Sure enough I was reminded during an evangelistic point. When I finished the message nobody responded. We wrapped it all up with a closing song. I walked to the back as I customarily do to greet people as they exit, and a nineteen year old girl met me in the back. She told me she did not think she was really saved. We walked to a quieter place across the hall and she said she faked her salvation as a child to please her grandparents who raised her. She wanted to repent and get saved right then. She asked Jesus to make her become a true a child of God. 

I was exuberant as we went back into the sanctuary right and the congregation ended the closing song. I got everyone's attention and told the good news. It was powerful. Lots of shouts. None louder than the angels in heaven. Luke 15:7 records there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous who need no repentance. If the angels rejoice over sinners repenting then we should also. 

Our enthusiasm should be unbridled as we watch God gloriously save lost people. The grace of God is powerful enough to reach the hardest heart and to transform the most untamable person. I think it is easy to lose sight of that in the midst of our religious activity. We run around to keep the program going instead of praying for God to do the work. He is able to do far more than we can. He can do more in days than we can do in decades. 

I rejoice even more because I know other sinners repented and experienced the grace of God through Jesus today as well. All over the world people turned to Jesus for salvation. The angels must be perpetually in a party state as sinners all over the globe get saved through faith in Jesus. Jesus is in the business of snatching people from the gates of hell and transferring them into the kingdom of light. We should rejoice with the angels.