Hi Everyone,

It's time for Vernon to get saved. God told me to send this to him, 
and I did it.

I changed the subject line to "Choosing The Fire", and please pray he reads it.

I really like this devotional.

Please read this and please pray!

Thanks a bunch.

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson

CHOOSING THE FIRE

>Smoking is bad for humans and for mountains.  When a mountain is 
>smoking, it usually means it's
>about to blow its top, as in volcano erupting.  Probably
>the most dramatic American eruption in our lifetime was the one on 
>Mount Saint Helen's in Washington
>State.  It devastated and really recreated the landscape
>for many square miles. It literally blew a major portion of the 
>mountain away.  Not that you could
>exactly call it a surprise.  For two or three months
>in advance, the mountain kept sending out smoke and eventually a big 
>lava dome began to form at the
>top.  Everybody knew it was going to blow, including
>a colorful old lodge owner with the colorful name, Harry 
>Truman.  But when everyone evacuated the
>area, Harry refused.  He stayed right there on Mount
>Saint Helen's, no matter how many times he was warned about what 
>would happen.  When the smoke
>finally cleared from the volcano's massive eruption, there
>was no trace that would ever suggest that lodge or that man had ever 
>been there.  The tragedy of
>something like that is obvious; someone died who didn't
>have to die.
>
>Someone might say, "The volcano killed that man."  Well, it wasn't 
>really the volcano that killed
>him, it was his choice to ignore the danger and stay where
>he was. It is that danger God is warning you and me against in our 
>word for today from the Word of
>God. It's in Hebrews 2:3.  He says, "How shall we escape
>if we ignore such a great salvation?"  God says, "I am providing a 
>way for you to have life for all
>eternity instead of death - heaven instead of hell.
>  If you ignore it, you will not escape.  You are choosing the fire."
>
>The word God uses here, salvation, suggests something that is 
>life-or-death.  When the rescuers went
>into Ground Zero, after the tragedy of September 11th,
>the issue was salvation, it was life-or-death.  They were, in a 
>sense, saviors and they were the
>victim's hope of coming out alive.
>
>For us, the word Savior has a capital "S" and only one person 
>qualifies. That would be Jesus.  He
>knew you and I were under a death penalty for running
>our own lives instead of God running them.  And He knew that the 
>only way you could escape the fire
>of that penalty was for Him to go to that cross and
>absorb all the hell of all your sin.  The one and only Son of God 
>loving you so much that He would
>be brutally crucified and totally cut off from God the
>Father, so you could live.  That is a "great salvation."  He is your 
>only hope of coming out alive.
>God says if you ignore that just as that old man ignored
>the warning about the volcano, you will not escape.  You are 
>choosing the fire.  Because of what
>Jesus did, you don't have to die.
>
>God says that so pointedly in John 3:16, "God so loved the world 
>(you could put your name in there)
>that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes
>in Him will not perish but have eternal life."  Jesus is your way 
>out of the fire.  He's your Savior
>reaching to you in the wreckage.  But you have to
>grab Him with total trust.  Notice that God said what would cost 
>people eternal life was neglecting
>Jesus; not just rejecting Jesus.  Hell is filled with
>people who were going to trust Jesus, who believed it all in their 
>head, who needed just a little
>more time, who meant to get to Jesus someday, but they
>passed up one too many opportunities.  They waited too long. That's 
>why the Bible says, "Now is the
>day of salvation."  You are gambling your eternity
>if you wait one more day.  That is too much to lose.  Would you tell 
>Jesus right now that you want
>Him to be your Savior from your sin while there's still
>time?
>
>You've heard God's warnings.  You know the way to escape the 
>destruction.  Don't just sit there and
>choose the fire. Jesus took the fire for you.
>
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