Steve, I know how much it is tearing you up. I have an 85 year old mother that is in the fourth stage of Alzheimer's disease. Her mind has been totally gone for almost two years, and the loss of brain function is beginning to affect her bodily functions. This usually means that the end is not far away. During all of her life, the only god she worshipped was mammon, and now she is unable to make a conversion even if she wanted to. I have had to reconcile myself that she will, in all probability, not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because she never accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. No amount of praying I may do can change this. No amount of anquish in my heart can change this. IMO, the seeming hopelessness of this situation should be sending you a message that you should encourage all you know, and all that will listen to you, to learn to know Jesus, and His words can convince them to accept Jesus as the Son of God, Lord, and Redeemer.
Even though it appears to be too late for my mother, I feel that any person I can show the blessings of Christ, and see that knowledge turn them to Jesus as their Savior, is one more soul in place of my mother's that will enter the Kingdom. I feel that my resolve in teaching of Jesus has been strengthened by what I have witnessed her about to lose. I am not one to shout from the street corner, grab a stranger's sleeve, or mount a pulpit, but I have been able to recognize those that are searching for the answers, and willing to listen. I consider this to be a blessing that has taken the place of the loss of my mother. All things are according to God's plan. Praise His name!!
There may be those that come onto this thread to belittle, and ridicule, beliefs such as this, but let them bay at the moon like cur dogs. They are the ones that are the losers in the final accounting.
~;=;o --haqi |
