The Cream of the Crop!
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Written by Danny Bunn,B.A. (Born-Again believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ)
Chapter 19
Preparing for a home coming
Well, the work day went by fairly fast. Joe jumps in his car
and as he is driving home, his mind goes to Clyde since he knew
that Clyde would be back to work tomorrow, his vacation time is
over then. He can't wait to see him and tell him all the things
that the Lord has been teaching him since he has been gone. His
mind goes back to Jerry, the animals, his talk with Cindy last
night. He sees the lord's hand in all of it and he knows that the
Lord is preparing him for the confrontation in the future but
today wasn't the day, he isn't going to go up to Jerry to try to
get something going. Joe knew that he wanted to see God bring the
talk together because the Lord knows a whole lot better than he
does on the time schedule. Joe gets about 2 blocks from home and
he sees a woman changing a flat tire. He stops and gets out and
runs up to her car and asks for permission to help her. The lady
looks at him and she hasn't broken one of the bolts loose yet so
she isn't the one to argue with him. Joe takes the lug wrench as
she lifts it up to him to take. He starts taking the lug nuts
off. He gets them off within about 3 minutes and then takes her
spare and puts it on the car and takes the flat tire and puts it
in her trunk. Then she offers to pay Joe something. He looks at
her and says, "No thanks, ma'am! God used a long haired guy in my
wife's life to teach me this lesson." He then gives her a tract
that says, "Smile, love is here!" She is still trying to figure
out his comment but she just takes the pamphlet and thanks him
and Joe is on his way home. The lady is scratching her head,
"Smile, love is here!" She is thinking he must be joking. She
looks at Joe's car as he is driving off. The bumper sticker on
the back says, "Jesus is the way and any other way is the wrong
way!" Her mind goes to when she was a child and how Jesus was
important then. But this is now, this is reality, this is a hard,
cruel world. She says out loud, "But I will read this, young
man!" She gets in her car and drives off.
Joe gets home and runs in to see Cindy. She isn't there. He
wonders where she is gone off to now. He sits down for a few
minutes and prays for the lady that he changed the tire for earlier. He prays that she will read the pamphlet and even call
them sometime since Joe had his name and number stamped on back
but most of all he prays that she will come to know, Jesus
Christ, the Lord of Glory as her own personal Lord and Saviour.
Cindy comes into the house about 30 minutes later with a black
eye. Joe jumps off the couch, "Honey, what happened to you?" She
is smiling, "Joe, it wasn't funny at the time but I knew that I
was open to the Lord. I offered this young man a tract and he
takes it and when he sees that it is about God, he looks up at me
and says, 'Your God is dead! I am a Satanist!' I was a little
shocked by his words and the look on his face but the Lord calmed
me down almost immediately. I go on to share the life of God with
him, God gave me a love for the guy and I so wanted him to meet
the Lord Jesus Christ for himself. I talk about how God is not
dead, neither is he the God of the dead but he is the God of the
living and all those who know him will live for all eternity. He
is listening but you can still see the hate, the anger in his
face. I continue on seeking to show him that Satan is a dead god
and he will be losing for all eternity in the lake of fire as
will all those who follow him. Well, that is when it happened. He
comes up and lets me have it and started running. I was crying
for a few minutes but the Lord was not only there, he was
touching me and the pain was going away to be replaced with a
pain in my heart for the young man. I forgot about my eye almost
immediately and started praying for the young man. He might be
gone but he still had the pamphlet and the words that I said
ringing in his ears. Joe, now I understand a little of what it
means by or through experience to praise God in the midst of
persecution. It might be mild compared to what a lot of God's
people went through in the word of God or even during the dark
ages when the Roman Catholic church killed millions but at least
I see to a small degree that the same God who was with them was
with me and he gave me a peace as I have read time and time again
of the Lord giving his people peace in the midst of persecution of the worst
kind. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever Joe!" Joe is
calming down as he is listening to Cindy talk, the peace of God
is now flooding him and he was hot, super hot. To think that some
guy would hit a girl, that is low. Cindy then bows her head with
Joe and prays for the Satanist. The prayers of God's people who
are moving in and submitted to him can move mountains and that is
what Cindy is expecting in this young man's life.
Cindy goes to the car and gets the baby's things that she
bought such as a baby bed, a play pen and a few other items. She
bought them at a used furniture place, she wanted to conserve
money for the food and clothing for the street people that they
have been talking about lately. Joe then tells Cindy a little bit
of his day at work and how he is waiting on the Lord for the
opening to talk with Jerry about animals and the differences
regarding them and mankind. He also tells Cindy about the lady
with the flat tire and he changed it for her and then she offered
him money. He tells Cindy that he turned it down and he goes on
to tell her that it is a lesson that he learned from a long
haired guy. Cindy laughs and hugs Joe. She says, "Now I will go
work on fixing us some supper. I am tired and hungry, it has been
a day to say the least." Cindy goes into the kitchen and Joe sits
down at his computer that he got a few weeks ago. He has been
learning a lot on it. There are ever so many opportunities on the
Web or even local bulletin boards to share Jesus with people. The
doors are opening all the time. Joe believes that time is short
here and he wants to be used in big ways for the Lord's glory.
Whatever door God opens he wants to go through it.
About an hour later, Cindy calls him to supper. He gets up
and goes to the dining room. They are having lamb chops. Cindy
says, "I never ate lamb and I couldn't resist when I was at the
store. My mind went to the lamb of God which taketh away the sins
of the world. He ate lamb until he became the Passover lamb."
They bow their heads and once again enter into the throne room of
the Lord God Almighty since they knew that they could go there
boldly because of what Jesus, the one true lamb of God, has done
for them by his finished work on the cross since they have
accepted that free gift and now they are in his family. The veil
has been split, there is no separation between God and man
anymore when a person goes through Jesus.
