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About The Author My dad even told me that I needed to turn from my ways, stating that I was not living according to the laws of God. My father died in 1987. Two days prior to his death, I was in the hospital room with him when he awoke out of a sleep. I asked him how he was doing and he said; "Son, I'm doing all right. How are you doing?" His next comment was, "I can't wait to get out of here as I know where I'm going." He was referring to dying and going to heaven. He then fell back to sleep. Those were the last words that he ever said to me. The next day he died. I was not a Christian when my dad died and he knew it. He went to be with the Lord knowing that I wasn't a Christian. Someday I'm going to see him again and I am going to hear him say, "Well Son, I see you figured it out." "Praise the Lord." I left home at the age of seventeen after an argument with my Dad and never went back. I adopted another Dad, a "friend Dad!" He taught me about all the good things in life, or so I thought, boats, cars and other things that even took me further away from the Lord. |
I was at this friend’s bedside
two days prior to his death also. He awoke from exploratory surgery
which was performed to see the extent of a tumor he had on his
brain. He greeted me in fear. He told me that he knew he was dying,
but that he didn't know where he was going. This didn't even
register with me. I was not a Christian at that time; had I been, I
may have been able to lead him to the Lord. I never realized when growing up that my relationship with Jesus Christ was MY relationship (my walk) and it had absolutely nothing to do with someone else’s relationship. We are not to judge others, least we are judged. However, all of us judge others to some extent. When we see someone, we presume to be a Christian doing something that we relate to the unsaved, we think, "He’s a Christian and he’s doing that?" The non-Christian sees this supposed Christian acting wrong and they say. "If that is what being a Christian is, then I don’t want any part of it." They are hypocrites! If you look at the way they live their lives and at their actions, they do not portray a real Christian. It’s hard for a non-Christian to |