The Cream of the Crop!
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Written by Danny Bunn,B.A. (Born-Again believer in the Lord
Jesus Christ)
Chapter 32
New life
Joe wakes up thinking, "Another week! Use me Lord!" He
gets up and Cindy isn't in the room, he goes into the living room
and she is sitting on the couch. Joe sees that she is hurting,
"What's wrong hon?" as he rushes over to her side. Cindy says
that she just started having contractions about 30 minutes ago
and they are fairly frequent now. Joe calls Cindy's girl friend
who is a midwife. He tells her what is happening and she says that
she will be right over. About 30 minutes later, she is at the
house. It is time! She prepares the necessary things for the
baby to be delivered. Time seems to pass ever so slowly for
Cindy, she is hurting big time. Her mind goes to the scripture
in Gen 3:16, "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy
sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth
children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee." Even though she knew that the pain was brought
about because of disobedience to God, she also knew the scripture
that says, "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed,
but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."
Cindy starts praising the one who created her and has shed
his love on her abundantly in Christ Jesus. The minutes are
passing like hours since the pain is so great but the Lord of
Glory is with her and she knows that she is in his hands and that
is all she needs to know. Finally the baby comes forth, a boy
and he weighed 7 lbs. 7 ounces. Cindy knew the meaning of 7 in
the word of God, perfection, completeness. It has been
completed, finished and here he is, beautiful and Cindy and Joe
and the midwife are praising God together. They saw things in a
little bit different light than they did a few hours ago. Now a
new human being has been brought into the earth and they have a
new responsibility that they didn't have before and they were a little spooked by it. They so wanted to raise their child and any
and all future children under the Almighty God's guidance. The
baby is quiet now and so are the other three. Silent and
thinking of the future and yet no man knows the future nor needs
to know it. What each and everyone needs to know is the one who
knows the future, the past, and the present. We all need to know
him and his human name was Jesus. He cared about everything that
went on in the lives around him when he walked this planet and he
cares about every life now but he gives us a choice on whether we
are going to give our lives to him of seek to run them in
ourselves. A God who is all powerful, everywhere present, all-
knowing and yet gives us the choice as to what we are going to do
with him is truly an unbelievable statement in the natural.
Joe took this week off since he knew that Cindy would have
her baby any day now. The Christian coffeehouse, soup kitchen
opened this week too. He was wondering how they were doing today
without him there. Well, he knew that the Lord was there and he
was with them and as Cindy said once, "Everywhere!" Joe nodded
and went back to looking at the new life that God has entrusted
to their care and thinking of the grave responsibility that lies
ahead. Children are a gift of the Lord, blessed is the man that
has a quiver full. "Amen and amen" is going on in Joe's mind.
Cindy is looking at Joe and then her baby. "Looks a lot like
you, Joe!" Joe says, "Poor baby!" Cindy responds back super
quickly, "Joe quit that! You are very handsome, would I lie to
you?" Joe is thinking, "Lie? No but you could be blinded or
deceived or prejudiced towards me." He bends down and kisses
Cindy and their new baby. Life will continue on now for all
eternity in one of two places for all of us. If we only knew the
benefits of walking with the Lord, or talking with him, receiving
from him, listening to him, just over all fellowshipping with
him, we would never be the same. To think that God would love us
so very much and the way that we treat him is mind blowing.
Speaking of mind blowing.
Over at the coffeehouse, Tony is serving a coffee and a
doughnut to a stranger who came into the coffeehouse. He is a
quiet sort of fellow. Tony tries to strike up a conversation
with him but it never gets past one word answers. "Do you live
around this area?" "No!" "Do you have a job?" "No!" "Are you
just passing through town?" "No!" "Do you have a place to
stay?" "Yes!" Tony is getting tired of this conversation. He
excuses himself and goes over to a few others who were sitting at
one of the tables talking the word of God." He lifts up the man
at the counter with the two brothers and sister at the table.
They pray for the man. As they are praying the man turns to the
table that they are at, he sees them with their heads bowed. He
hollers at them. They look up and he has a 38 pointed at the guy
sitting by the girl. Now she sees who it is. It is her old
boyfriend Gary. Lynn speaks out, "Gary, put the gun away, this
is just a friend, a brother in the Lord." Gary answers back,
"Lynn, nobody is taking you from me!" as he points the gun at the
guy. As fast as possible, Tony jumps up and leaps over the
table, the gun goes off and Tony hits the ground. The guy runs
out the door in partial shock and he runs into Joe. Joe heard
the shot, he brings the man down in a fight out front seeking
to get the gun away from him, the gun goes off three more times
as they are rolling on the ground. Joe manages to get the gun
out of his hand and then get him in an arm lock. A couple of
other guys in the coffeehouse come out and help Joe tie the man
up. Meanwhile inside, they are looking down at Tony. He was
shot in the head. Lynn is crying and Greg is thinking, "Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends." Greg applied that scripture to Tony in this case. He
gave his physical life so that Greg might retain his for a while
longer here on planet earth but Greg also knew that our life is a
vapour, we are here today and gone tomorrow. Oh how sin messed
up this world. The police arrive and a few minutes later the
ambulance gets there as the police were asking questions. The
newspaper reporters and t.v. crew arrive and get pictures and
interviews. Joe is telling what he knew, Greg puts in a little
more, then Lynn fills in the missing pieces of the puzzle. The
arrest is made and they take him in. Joe is thinking, "Tony was
just saved yesterday, one day meant the difference between heaven
and hell."
Approximately 30 minutes later the media leaves. The place
is quiet now. Joe goes to the phone and calls Cindy. He tells
her what happened and he will be home in a little bit. Cindy is
crying now. She lets Joe go and she looks at the new little life
in her arms. Life is the gift of God, death is the gift of
Satan. Death was never meant to be until mankind disobeyed God
and did their thing. Now death is a common place thing but it is
still abnormal and mankind knows it is. The bible says that
death is the last enemy to be destroyed and it surely hasn't been
destroyed yet. Cindy was at least comforted in the knowledge
that Tony was saved, born again, washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Now he is home as Clyde is home. Clyde walked a lot longer with
Jesus down here before he went home but he was saved in the exact
same way that Tony was, by grace through faith in the finished
work of Christ Jesus. She goes into adoration and praise of the
one true God and by the look on the new baby's face, it was as if
he knew. Maybe he does, just maybe he does.
