Today is Sunday and all church
goers head off to their once a week observance where they
coldly mouth the words of Jesus Christ the Son of Man.
Yes life must be getting down to the fine edge when you
discover that "Man does not live by bread alone"
but by sharing the Good News about eternal life through
Jesus Christ. The most frightening thing in the world
for me is to meet people who call themselves Christians
who pray like God is their "good buddy" rather
than an almighty Father who loves beyond comprehension
and certainly deserves to be spoken to respectfully. Yes
people who call themselves Christians and yet live like
everyone else in the world are very frightening. At least
people in the world caught up in drugs, alcohol and illicit
relationships can discover how empty and dead their lives
are and turn to Jesus for help like I did long ago. But
people who call themselves "Christians"
will be judged on the final day but they will have no
excuse because they will have to admit they knew "about"
Jesus" but never lived the New Life He said they
must live to make it to heaven. .
Yea, long ago I was a producer of recreational drugs
until organized crime made me an offer they thought I
couldn't refuse. With friends gone after they found the
mafia was coming, I got on my knees and said the following,
"Jesus I don't know if You are real or a fairy tail
but If You are real please help me." In those simple
words my life changed from one of a drug maker to a teacher
of children from that day in 1976 on.
I began a journey to tell people the amazing story of
how I got saved and I soon discovered there were two kinds
of people in the world, people like the beer drinking
truck driver who gave me his bunk in his truck to help
me off the road and the other group were the religious
people who went to church every Sunday with a Bible in
every room of their house and in their car; some were
even involved with mission work which deep in their heart
they hated but when it came to sharing one on one time
with me, it was the truck driver who not only gave me
a place to sleep and food but he spent time with me everyday
until our roads parted,
The only thing that I see standing between people finding
out that Jesus is real and is there to help them to eternity
is church goers in today's society. Sometimes I think
the best and safest time to go out into the world is any
Sunday morning between 11:00AM and 12:00PM. I believe
that I can find people bound for heaven in the work a
day life of earth but for me to find a heaven bound Christian
in a church would be a miracle. Most church goers are
very religious but that is worse than not knowing Christ
at all; they know all the words, the Bible and all the
religious lingo but the one thing they don't know is God
in His Son Jesus.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not religious but I do love the
Lord; and I do believe in miracles and that is there can
be and there are "real" Christians in churches
everywhere in the world. Isn't that amazing!!
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