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  From:  Trent_Fuller (TrentFuller)    2/5/2003 8:53 pm  
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HOW 2 FINISH WELL
(Bare with me, this isn't easy to explain without visual aid.)


When a pastor asked an elder how he was able to finish well, and even at his ripe age be so on-fire for the Kingdom, the wise elder reached into his breast pocket and pulled out two pens, holding them out on the table. 

"Who's strength and glory is holding up these pens?"

"Yours" said the pastor.

Immediately, the elder let one of the pens drop on the table as he held both of them.  Then the elder said, listen to the pen that stands.

Cautiously, the pastor put his ear near the standing pen, not knowing that the elder could throw his voice.

"Just look at you." Said the standing pen to the fallen pen, "Can't you do anything right?  I just can't believe that you would sink so low, and behave so poorly!  Don't you even understand the Gospel, and how to obey?"

Then the elder looked at the pastor and said, "I am sick of holding this one." .. and he let the standing pen fall next to the other.  Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out another pen ... "Who's glory makes this pen stand?"  "Still, yours" said the pastor.

"What is wrong with you, two?" Said the standing pen to the two fallen pens, "You sicken me, with such a terrible demonstration of what you could be, if you only believed as I do, and did what I do, and say what I know you should say ..."

Then the elder let this one drop as well.  Again and again, the elder did this until he was out of pens and five fallen pens lay on the table.  The pastor got the point.

On the lighter side, the pastor says that he wishes that he never told his wife that story.  Countless times at the dinner table the wife has been known to pick up a fork or spoon and begin ... "I just can't believe what they did ...."  

Thus, the pastor is ever reminded who holds him, and makes him stand.  He wants to finish well, and by God's grace he will, with the understanding that without God's grace, he would be hopeless and helpless.

With the warmest of regards,

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   From:  Watchman77    2/7/2003 2:34 am  
To:  Trent_Fuller (TrentFuller)    (2 of 2)  
 
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Amen and amen! good illustration...
Philippians 1:21, For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Rest in Jesus \o/
God's blessings
and peace 
YSICJ Earla
aka Watchman77

http://forums.delphiforums.com/Godswrath/start 

  

Art used by permission by Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992.
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  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. Rev 19:11

Psalms 127:3, Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.



 
 
  
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