MORNING MANNA 4-18-23
MOTIVATION TO KEEP GOING
“ For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.“- Phil. 1:23-24
D.L. Moody told the following story: I heard once of a man who dreamed that he was swept into Heaven, and oh, he was so delighted to think that he had at last got there. All at once one came and said: “Come, I want to show you something.” He took him to the battlements, and he said, “Look down yonder; what do you see?”
“I see a very dark world.”
“Look and see if you know it.”
“Why, yes,” he said, “that is the world I have come from.”
“What do you see?”
“Men are blindfolded there; many of them are going over a precipice.”
“Well, will you stay here and enjoy Heaven, or will you go back to earth and spend a little longer time, and tell those men about this world?”
He was a Christian worker who had been discouraged. He awoke from his sleep and later he said: “I have never wished myself dead since.”
The next time you get discouraged by the difficulties of life to the point that you want to bail out on God and wish you were dead you might want to think about the point of this story. There are things more important than your comfort. Lost souls are headed for hell and you are on earth for a reason. The fact that you are living means God has a purpose for you! – HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, Tx.
