Is rain keeping you from God's will ?
Posted by: root <root@...>
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's 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 2 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---"Mam,
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
and as the service began he asked---" Does anybody have a 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 as she said-- "None of you in this church know me. I've never
been here before. You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My
husband has 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 as 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 thisbe ?! 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 !!! And the Words that came from his mouth
caused my Heart, that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed
with 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, and since the address of your
Church was on the back of thisGospel 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 were now no dry eyes 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 him 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 &
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....
There may be SOMEONE, reading this, who is also going through a Dark, Cold,
Lonely time in your soul. You may be a Christian, for we are not without
problems, OR you may not yet Know THE KING. Whatever the case, and Whatever
the problem or situation you find yourself in, and no matter how DARK it may
seem, I want you to know that I just came to tell you---JESUS REALLY DOES
LOVE YOU.
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