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November 2005 Entries



Got this in email today.  Do not know if this is true or not, but was still a good read.


 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 ask, "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.

 This 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 doorbell. 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 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 m! y 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 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. This 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.