Saturday, October 11, 2008

The Fence

There was a large group of people. On one side of the group stood a man, Jesus. On the other side of the group stood Satan. Seperating them, running through the group, was a fence.

The scene set, both Jesus and Satan began calling to the people in the group and, one by one - each having made up his or her own mind - each went to either Jesus or Satan.

This kept going. Soon enough, Jesus had gathered around him a group of people from the larger crowd, as did Satan.

But one man joined neither group. He climbed the fence that was there and sat on it for whole of his life.

Then, Jesus came and took his people with him. So too did Satan. And the man on the fence sat alone.

As this man sat, Satan came back, looking for something which he appeared to have lost. The man said, "Have you lost something?"

Satan looked straight at him and replied, "No, there you are. Come with me."

"But", said the man, "I sat on the fence. I chose neither you nor him."

"Thats okay," said Satan. "I own the fence."

This story tells about the world and its decisions. These people spent their life choosing to follow what they think is best. Some choose to follow what is up to date, leading to a life that is satisfied by their sinful desires. Have you ever deliberately lied to your parents and felt good that they believed? We've all done that:) thats what I mean by following our sinful desires. There are also people who do not come to Church, some who don't take God seriously even when they're Christians. But you know what? The voice that tells you to do whats wrong will only tell you how good it feels for the moment-it won't tell you the consequence! The Bible says that,we'll all have to answer for every thing we've done wrong. Now, after I've said all these, you must be thinking, "This God is quite unmerciful..."? haha, well, this will be what happens when the world comes to an end:) and those who stand between God and Satan(not choosing anyone to follow) belong to Satan. Now, this is the best part: Ever since Satan tempted Man into commiting the first sin, the world has been bombarded with sins! And God knows that this cannot be stopped unless He sends His son down to earth so that we might be forgiven of ALL our sins. When Jesus died on the cross, He was dying for us. He was taking the whole world's sin upon himself and paid the wages- that is death. And when He ressurrected, He conquered death and He is the way to God! The way to living a life free of guilt and full of joy.God wants for all of us to believe that Jesus died for our sins, but He doesn't want to force us. He doesn't want us to just be robots for Him. So He gave us a choice! A choice to follow whoever and whatever we want in life- and ultimately, Him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6yTPPOOAI

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey valerie! i like this post alot. it is very telling that we should all make a decision for everything and not to avoid it. but, we all should turn to Christ as satan is the devil of all devils.


chelsea

Anonymous said...

yeamann! decisions are so important! i believe that in everything we do, we should seek God first. we should never compromise with the enemy!!!!

go val! ;D

This person said...

hello!! haha erm is that suppose to be a joke or something?? hahaha erm.. well yeah haha

This person said...

erm edwin here haha erm i dun think its a joke right? erm ok nvm haha wee~

Valerie said...

To Edwin:
Hi Edwin:) actually this story tells about the world and its decisions. These people spent their life choosing to follow what they think is best. Some choose to follow what is up to date, leading up to a life that is satisfied by their sinful desires. Have you ever deliberately lied to your parents and felt good that they liebeved? We've all done that:) thats what I mean by following our sinful desires. There are also people who do not come to Church, some who don't take God seriously even when they're Christians. But you know what? The voice that tells you to do whats wrong the will only tell you how good it feels for the moment-it won't tell you consequence! The Bible says that,we will all have to answer for every thing we've done wrong. Now, after I've said all these, you must be thinking, "This God is quite unmerciful..."? haha, well, this will be what happens when the world comes to an end:) and those who stand between God and Satan(not choosing anyone to follow) belong to Satan. Now, this is the best part: Ever since Satan tempted Man into commiting the first sin, the world has been bombarded with sins! And God knows that this cannot be stopped unless He sends His son down to earth so that we might be forgiven of ALL our sins. When Jesus died on the cross, He was dying for us. He was taking the whole world's sin upon himself and paid the wages- that is death. And when He ressurrected, He conquered death and He is the way to God! The way to living a life free of guilt and full of joy.God wants for all of us to believe that Jesus died for our sins, but He doesn't want to force us. He doesn't want us to just be robots for Him. So He gave us a choice! A choice to follow whoever and whatever we want in life- and ultimately, Him. Do have a look at this video:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8xHHFQQpE&feature=related