eavesdropping on grace

While sitting in my bed tonight reading my Bible, I couldn't help, but eavesdrop on a conversation going on right outside my bedroom window. At first I was just angry that someone was speaking so loud and interrupting my quiet time and soon to be interrupting my sleep. Then I begin to listen to what was being said. I had to just sort of smile at God's irony. I had just finished reading in Ephesians 2 when it says, "But because of his great love, for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved." The girl outside was talking on the phone to what sounded like a good friend of hers about God's grace and salvation. It's kind of a surreal feeling listening from the outside the gospel being told to someone that sounds so lost in his transgressions and lost in the world.

I had to praise God for the diligence of this girl to preach the gospel in love, though it might hurt her friendship with this person. After hearing the topic I just couldn't find it in myself to be mad. Guess it's a good thing my loud next door neighbor lives next to a girl that can't get mad at spreading the gospel at 11pm. :)

So the next time your neighbors are being loud, stop and eavesdrop on the conversation and if it's not about the gospel, then yell at them that they need Jesus. :)