Newly Ventured

You may not get all the comfort you want in this life, but just trust in God, and He’ll settle things. If you are saved, on the day you die you will have experienced your last moment of suffering . If you are lost (NoT sAvEd), on the day you die you will have experienced your last moment of pleasure

This is a cute poem that I read in one of my forwards. It is so true.

I knelt to pray but not for long,

I had too much to do.

I had to hurry and get to work

For bills would soon be due.

So I knelt and said a hurried prayer,

And jumped up off my knees.

My Christian duty was now done

My soul could rest at ease…..

All day long I had no time

To spread a word of cheer

No time to speak of Christ to friends,

They’d laugh at me I’d fear.

No time, no time, too much to do,

That was my constant cry,

No time to give to souls in need

But at last the time, the time to die

I went before the Lord,

I came, I stood with downcast eyes.

For in his hands God held a book;

It was the book of life.

God looked into his book and said

‘Your name I cannot find

I once was going to write it down…

But never found the time’

When I read the poem, I realized how many times I have procrastinated what I should have done. I was given so many opportunities to tell my friends or colleagues about Jesus, but I find some excuse or another to put it off to another day. Every day I have an opportunity to set an example to others, but meticulously I put off till tomorrow. How many times have I fought against the thoughts in my head??? Yet, how many times have I failed in my struggle and given in to that Selfish desire to trust in another human being??? How many times have I resisted that urge to gossip but after a lil’ struggle give in to the temptation???

The poem made me realize that there is not much time to tell the world about Jesus. A song by Hillsongs goes like this:

Tell the world that Jesus lives

Tell the world that, tell the world that,

Tell the world that He died for them,

Tell the world that He lives again.

He is coming soon, THE End is drawing near. Soon, we will be singing:

Behold He comes, riding on the clouds

Shining like the sun, at the trumpet call,

Lift your voice; it’s the year of jubilee,

Out of Zion’s hills Salvation comes.

When this happens the Books of Life will be opened. We will have to give an account for all that we did in this life time for the Bible says, “And for your lifeblood (life) I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.” (Genesis 9: 5). All the sins that are forgiven and washed away by the blood of Jesus will not be questioned for it says “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1: 18)”

Though my heart rejoices when I think of His coming… I don’t think I am ready to face Him yet…

-Robert Frost

There is always more than one choice for any decision that we have to make in our lives. But, there is always only one right way to any situation or decision. If life is like a road—like the metaphor used in The Road Not Taken (the poem mentioned above)— then it is not just about you choosing a road, but it is about choosing the right road. For example, just yesterday I took a day off from office. I was not sick or anything. I just had an exam that day evening and I wanted to prepare for it. So when I called office to tell them that I won’t be coming, I didn’t know what to say. What do you think I should have done??? Told them that I am going to stay at home and study? (Are you crazy???). Of course I didn’t tell them that. I chose to lie. I told them that I was sick and couldn’t make it to office. Now that was not right was it? In this case I chose the wrong road. In this poem there are two types of roads, one that is frequented by most human beings (broad road) and the one that is less travelled (narrow road).

The first road is the broad road with flowering trees on either side. This road is very pleasing to the eye. Let’s see, I could have just said I have an exam and can’t come to office but I didn’t did I? I chose to take the easier way out. I chose the path that is easy to enter, the path of lie. Let us try to find out a little more about this road shall we? On this road ‘everything’ is right. You can go clubbing, drinking, flirting, and smoking. These activities in most ways bring people together. Not only do these activities bring people together they also go hand in hand. You get to know a lot of people when you club, not necessarily good friendship. You also get to interact with a lot people when you smoke or drink. Haven’t you heard of the term ‘drinking buddies’ or ‘smoking buddy’. Are they really good friends? Do they do any good to or for you??? No way!!! The more you want to see them the more you go to pubs… the more you go to pubs the more you drink (obviously!!!). Well that is the broad way. If you take this route all your life you will end up in cancer (that was obvious right??) but more importantly as per the scriptures you will end up in HELL.

The second road is the narrow road, which can be missed by a few people in their excitement at spotting the easy way out of a situation. This is unfortunately the road that I should have taken. This road is not very sociable; some people may just be rude to you because of your righteousness. You may seem a little or a teeny tiny bit more than a little uptight sometimes when saying NO. Sometimes people may just be the other road and they may make fun of you for being truthful. For example, if you have cheated on your exam and even without being caught you confess to your teacher then other students may make fun of you. But confessing is the right thing to do. Certain other times you may feel like you are the only one walking this path and you may just plain right feel lonely, for example, you don’t want to go to the pub your friends are going to. These times you just have to remember that you are on the right side and the Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) is right there with you to give you support to move on in the right path. Well we all know where this roads leads to right???? Of course it is HEAVEN.

So if I make one wrong choice does that mean I am branded to go to HELL for life??? Of course not! You have a chance to take the wrong route every time there is a choice in your life. Let’s see, yesterday I started off with a lie about my coming to office late (I told my project manager that I came late because of traffic, whereas I actually woke up late…) but I felt so guilty about it that I confessed and asked forgiveness to Jesus. So from being on the wrong side I moved to the right side. This happens for every single decision that you make. But there is a small rule. You can’t keep repeating the same mistaking over and over again. Well think about it… won’t you get mad if someone does the same mistake over and over again? It’s the same thing with God. You can’t just keep taking him for granted now can you?

So there is something like a bridge between broad and narrow roads. This bridge appears every time you make a choice. So if you are on the narrow road and you make the wrong choice, you go to the broad way and vice versa. It is always best to choose the narrow road than the broad road. May be your very stubborn boss gives you a report today and tells you he wants it yesterday (my my my… isn’t that something we are all familiar with) don’t lie to him about not finishing the report. Tackle the issue, take the bull by its horn let him know that you need more time. May be your friend is inviting you to dinner with someone you don’t’ want to see. Don’t lie to her just tell her you don’t want to come. Be straight forward.

Now think about this. Where are you now and which way do you want to go??