Every Sunday afternoon, after the
morning service at the church, the Pastor and his
eleven year old son would go out into their town
and hand out Gospel Tracts.
This particular Sunday
afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his
son to go to the streets with their tracts, it
was very cold outside, as well as pouring down
rain. The boy bundled up in his warmest and
driest clothes and said, 'OK, dad, I'm ready.' His Pastor dad asked,
'Ready for what?'
'Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and
go out.' Dad responds, 'Son, it's very cold
outside and it's pouring down rain.'
The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, 'But Dad,
aren't people still going to Hell, even though
it's raining?'
Dad answers, 'Son, I am not going out in this
weather.' Despondently, the boy asks, 'Dad, can I
go? Please?'
His father hesitated for a moment then said,
'Son, you can go. Here are the tracts, be careful
son.'
'Thanks
Dad!'
And with that, he was off and out into the rain.
his eleven year old boy walked the streets of the
town going door to door and handing everybody he
met in the street a Gospel Tract.
After two hours of walking in the rain, he was
soaking, bone-chilled wet and down to his VERY
LAST TRACT. He stopped on a corner and looked for
someone to hand a tract to, but the streets were
totally deserted.
Then he turned toward the first home he saw and
started up the sidewalk to the front door and
rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody
answered. He rang it again and again, but still
no one answered. He waited but still no answer.
Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned to
leave, but something stopped him. Again, he
turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked
loudly on the door with his fist. He waited,
something holding him there on the front porch!
He rang again and this time the door slowly
opened. Standing in the doorway was a very
sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked, 'What
can I do for you, son?' With radiant eyes and a
smile that lit up her world, this little boy
said, 'Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I
just want to tell you that *JESUS REALLY DOES
LOVE YOU* and I came to give you my very last
Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS
and His great LOVE.'
With that, he handed her his last tract and
turned to leave. She called to him as he
departed. 'Thank you, son! And God Bless You!'
Well, the following Sunday morning in church
Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service
began, he asked, 'Does anybody have any
testimony or want to say anything?'
Slowly, in the back row of the church, an elderly
lady stood to her feet. As she began to speak, a
look of glorious radiance came from her face, 'No
one in this church knows me. I've never been here
before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a
Christian. My husband passed on some time ago,
leaving me totally alone in this world. Last
Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day,
it was even more so in my heart that I came to
the end of the line where I no longer had any
hope or will to live.
So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the
stairway into the attic of my home. I fastened
the rope securely to a rafter in the roof, then
stood on the chair and fastened the other end of
the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair,
so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap
off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my
doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, 'I'll
wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away.' I
waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell
seemed to get louder and more insistent, and then
the person ringing also started knocking loudly.
I thought to myself again, 'Who on earth could
this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to
see me.' I loosened the rope from my neck and
started for the front door, all the while the
bell rang louder and louder.
When I opened the door and looked I could hardly
believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was
the most radiant and angelic little boy I had
ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could
never describe it to you! The words that came
from his mouth caused my heart that had long been
dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a
cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell
you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU.' Then he
gave me this Gospel Tract that I now hold in my
hand.
As the little angel disappeared back out into the
cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly
every word of this Gospel Tract. Then I went up
to
my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be
needing them any more.
You see---I am now a Happy Child of the KING.
Since the address of your church was on the back
of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to
personally say THANK YOU to God's little angel
who came just
in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my
soul from an eternity in hell.'
There was not a dry eye in the church. And as
shouts of praise and honor to THE KING resounded
off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad
descended from the pulpit to the front pew where
the little angel was seated.
He took his son in his arms and sobbed
uncontrollably. Probably no church has had a more
glorious moment, and probably this universe has
never seen a Papa that was more filled with love
& honor for his son... Except for One.
Our Father also allowed His Son to go out into a
cold and dark world. He received His Son back
with joy unspeakable, and as all of heaven
shouted praises and honor to The King, the Father
sat His beloved Son on a throne far above all
principality and power and every name that is
named.
Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.
Don't let this message die, read it again and
pass it to others. Heaven is for His people!
Remember,
God's message CAN make the difference in the life
of someone close to you.
Please share this wonderful message...
'Faith is the affirmation and the act that bids
eternal truth be present fact.'
Coleridge
Three things
in life that, once gone, never come back -
1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity
Three things in life that can destroy a person -
1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness
Three things in life that you should never lose-
1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable -
1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness
Three
things in life that are never certain -
1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams
Three things that make a person -
1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work
Three things that are truly constant -
Father - Son - Holy Spirit
I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you
today;
to guide you and protect you, as you go along
your way.
God's love is always with you, God's promises are
true.
And when you give God all your cares,
you know God will see you through.
'Whoever acknowledges
Me before men,
I will acknowledge him
before My Father in heaven.
But whoever disowns Me
before men, I will disown
him before My Father
in heaven'
(Matthew
10:32)
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