If you help someone who is hungry by giving something to eat, it will stand for several hours until he or she becomes hungry again.
If you help someone who does not have a cloth by giving something to wear, it will stand for two or three years until the cloth can not be weared again.
If you help someone who does not have a shelter by building him/her a house, it will stand for ten or twenty years until the house is broken.
If you help someone with an education by sending him/her to school, it will stand until his/her life time.
But, if you help someone who does not know what will happen after death by telling him/her the way through Jesus Christ then your help will stand forever.....
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding." Proverb 4:7.
A baby has to fall down several times before he/she can stand up and learn to walk.
When I was a child I learned how to ride a bicycle and I fall many times before I was able to ride it.
A friend of mine has experienced several traffic accidents and still has the courage to drive a car fastly.
Thomas Alpha Edison failed thousand times before he succeed with his experiment of making the light on.
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Do you have similar experience?
"... though a rightous man falls seven times, he rises again..." Proverb 24:16.
(In rememberence to the earth quake victims in Italy)
They saw a toll.
It is not a toll road.
It is a toll.
A death toll.
Toll, toll, toll...
Tolls.
Who can control?
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving a marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.... Therefore keep watch, because you do not know what day your Lord will come." Matthew 24:36-39,42.
One day twenty five years ago I got up in the morning, with my eyes still felt sleepy because of not enough sleeping, I prepared breakfast, ate it and then took shower and went to school. At school I could not concentrate because my eyes were still heavy. I felt a sleep. My teacher was angry at me. I pushed myself to concentrate.
After coming back from school I worked for living. In the evening several friends came and brought me around. I was not able to resist. Sometimes I slept at 03:00 am. The next morning I woke up again with sleepy eyes. I felt tired. I felt life was heavy, and I asked to myself, "What is actually life all about?"
A year later I heard two of my friends died because of traffic accidents. Then there was a question that came to my mind, "If I die to night then where will I go?" I didn't know the answer. I felt scared. Thank God that finally there was a friend who helped me showing the way. It's through Jesus Christ.
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going. ...,"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:1-4,6.
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