[CS-FSLUG] Is this you?

[Fred A. Miller]

Something I put together and sent out ALL over. I sure hope it works,
bringing someone into the fold.

Fred

Its Friday night and you are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander
to the game you want to see and meal you want to eat, when suddenly a
sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high
above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don't know, but
you want to know. So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As
you do, you see you aren't the only curious one.

The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people
are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store.
The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt.
Players and parents are searching the clouds. And what they see, and
what you see, has NEVER before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A
brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None.

>From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the
flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one
myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky. North.
South. East. West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound
of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy,
holy, holy.. The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four
silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in
worship.

Presently the movement stops and the trumpets are silent, leaving only
the triumphant triplet: Holy, holy, holy. Between each word is a pause.
With each word, a profound reverence. You hear your voice join in the
chorus. If you don't know Him as Lord, you don't know why you say the
words, but you know you must.

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you
turn, the entire world turns and there He is. Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the
King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing
cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

  I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads. The elders remove their crowns. Before you
is a figure so all consuming that you know, instantly you know, nothing
else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports. Sales meetings
and football games, your live-in "significant other". Nothing else is
important. All that did matter to you, matters no more.... for THE
Christ has come, unless of course you have denied Him all your life.
THEN, His coming will be the most fearful event you could possibly imagine!

You heard His message of salvation and chose to ignore it. You've
laughed at and told jokes about sin, with the attitude that you could do
whatever you wished, as long as you didn't get caught.

You condoned abortion and voted for candidates who support it, because
you believed that a baby wasn't really a "human" till it was born. Of
course, you also couldn't watch a movie of an abortion either, because
you didn't want to see that the baby is just as much a human being as
you. You didn't want to see it being hacked apart and it's reactions to
it. You didn't want to have to watch as the brain is sucked out of a
mid-term infant. You'd rather believe the lies from liberals and the
largest baby murders, Planned Parenthood, that a fetus is just a bob of
flesh. Something like a tumor. Real Christians said it was wrong, and
that God is going to deal harshly with our Nation because of it. YOU
didn't want to deal with the truth!

You also condoned homosexuality, saying it didn't matter if they wanted
to get married and even adopt children, just as long as they left you
alone. You never even considered that the Bible says that it an
abomination, in fact you made jokes about the Bible and what it says in
regard to those who seek the affection of those of the same sex. Once
again, YOU didn't want to deal with the truth!

It's always been great sport for you to make rude comments about His
word and His followers, in particular when it was in regard to
sin...things in your life you shouldn't be doing, and were offended when
someone would give you a Biblical reason why you shouldn't sin. Of
course, the last thing you'd ever do would be to read His word for
yourself, let alone attend church on a regular basis. Church?! How could
you manage to get up and go to church after getting drunk the night
before, and or doing drugs. How could you go to church when you've been
living with someone out-of-wedlock? You've been told it's wrong and once
again, YOU didn't want to deal with the truth!

You've always lived for yourself, been politically correct - making sure
you didn't offend anyone else, except for Christians of course, and
denied Christ being who He is. Oh sure, you, like so many others,
thought that there was a "powerful being" of some sort...maybe who we
call "God," but you didn't want to consider that Christians were and are
correct in who He is, and that His son DID come to earth to offer
Himself as a sacrifice for all who'd believe on Him, and that He would
return. You even know or did know what John 3:16 says. You'd often made
fun of Him, using his name as a cuss word. Once again, YOU didn't want
to deal with the truth!

Now, all of a sudden you realize that the end indeed has come, and it's
too late to change your mind about who He is and the choice you could
have made. You remember all the warnings you've had throughout your life
from preachers and other Christians. Now, you are beyond terrified and
you are quite aware of where you will spend eternity. Further, you know
it's going to be worse than anything you've heard about it.

Your story doesn't have to end this way. You can still make that one
decision that can keep you from the clutches of Hell.

Fred

-- 
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have.

   -Thomas Jefferson