What shall it profit a man...?
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Jesus Christ
Mark 8:36 King James Version (KJV)
I will never forget the day I read those words in a Topeka Metro bus as a child about 11 or 12. Of course today you would not see a poster like that... Didn't know what it meant, but remember being struck by it. Now I know what it means and as soon as I, as an adult, had found God (or I guess I should say, after God found me) I remembered that day on the bus seeing that poster and having it grab me the way it did. Kind of like a part of me being struck by lightning. Stopped in my tracks. Hit by something, didn't know what.
I also remember vividly the day back when I just lived to play music and move from state to state,. My grandma asked me when I was going to settle down. I sarcastically replied, "I'm not ready to die yet," (meaning "settling down" would be the worst thing I could imagine doing...) She immediately countered, "Well, you can get ready, can't you?"
Didn't know what she meant but it struck me in that same way. I guess you could say "my heart was smitten." I don't understand it all but I know it was something outside myself and I believe it was God. Calling me. Taking hold of me. And that's what he still does. I don't know who was praying for me or even who may have given a plug nickle either way about me as far as God and eternity was concerned. I know some people must have. But I just know God did.
I guess God knows who is his, who will be his, who will come and who will not. I just know that all the people I love who have not yet found God (or let God find them) I sure don't want to think about missing you in eternity. Don't want to be light about this. At all. I just hope you get smitten and come to God. It's the best thing happening.
Mark 8:36 King James Version (KJV)
I will never forget the day I read those words in a Topeka Metro bus as a child about 11 or 12. Of course today you would not see a poster like that... Didn't know what it meant, but remember being struck by it. Now I know what it means and as soon as I, as an adult, had found God (or I guess I should say, after God found me) I remembered that day on the bus seeing that poster and having it grab me the way it did. Kind of like a part of me being struck by lightning. Stopped in my tracks. Hit by something, didn't know what.
I also remember vividly the day back when I just lived to play music and move from state to state,. My grandma asked me when I was going to settle down. I sarcastically replied, "I'm not ready to die yet," (meaning "settling down" would be the worst thing I could imagine doing...) She immediately countered, "Well, you can get ready, can't you?"
Didn't know what she meant but it struck me in that same way. I guess you could say "my heart was smitten." I don't understand it all but I know it was something outside myself and I believe it was God. Calling me. Taking hold of me. And that's what he still does. I don't know who was praying for me or even who may have given a plug nickle either way about me as far as God and eternity was concerned. I know some people must have. But I just know God did.
I guess God knows who is his, who will be his, who will come and who will not. I just know that all the people I love who have not yet found God (or let God find them) I sure don't want to think about missing you in eternity. Don't want to be light about this. At all. I just hope you get smitten and come to God. It's the best thing happening.
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