Prayers for your friend.
All of us who reach a certain age, know that the majority of our lives are behind us. Especially upon reaching retirement, we have to consider that we are much closer to the finish line than to the beginning of our lives.
With your friend’s health problems, his mortality is something that he can’t avoid thinking about.
I hope he finds contentment and inner peace somehow. If it happens through faith and abandoning atheism, that would be wonderful.
There is no one so lonely as the one without God.
I look back on life with many regrets, but my looking forward to an eternity with my God makes me glad for life and the hope that lives in my heart.
God loves your friend and nothing can stop that love. It is there for the simple trust and acceptance of ones heart. It isn’t the brain or logic one has to deal with but the heart in simple child like faith.
By design, we are given just a short period of time; time to be born, and time go grow up, and time do decide what to do with our lives, and time to decide whether we’re going to make a difference or not.
Unfortunately, most will amount to just consumers of time, and of food and material goods.
When our time is done, most will come to the realization that, perhaps we didn’t count. Maybe next time. Next time.
Look at Robin Williams. To us, he appeared to be a man who had everything. Yet, he was so unhappy that he ended his own life. That was a wake up call for the Baby Boomers. I think many of them continue to sleep.
My brother is clever and very bright, and it is impossible to get anywhere with him on any topic, because all of his efforts go into avoiding ever getting to the meat, it is all witty quips and diversions, useless.
Have him read Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. If Scrooge could be reclaimed, anyone can.
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Amazing they can be provoked to blind hatred and rage at someone they claim to be imaginary!
You could tell them Peter Pan is gonna save them, and Captn Hook will take them to hell, and they will laugh.
So obviously they DO Know, and believe in The One! Otherwise they would laugh it off like Peter Pan!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Olasky
Olansky stikes me as a tad mean spirited ... a tad vain. I suspect that might not sit well with a higher being:
from the link:
Olasky was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Russian-Jewish family and graduated from Yale University in 1971 with a B.A. in American Studies.[2] In 1976 he earned his Ph.D. in American Culture at the University of Michigan.[2] He became an atheist in adolescence and a Marxist in college, ultimately joining the Communist Party USA in 1972.[2] He married and divorced during this period and by his own admission broke every one of the ten commandments except the one against murder. He left the Communist Party late in 1973 and in 1976 became a Christian after reading the New Testament and a number of Christian authors.[2]
Tears By Me Out The Heart.
Ask Jesus to save him. He’s been known to intervene and give the hopeless a chance upon the prayers of loved ones. “Saul, why do you persecute me?”
This is powerful. Prayers for this man and the many angry fearful ones like him.
Some Christian writers have understood what my childhood friend is going through.
Ecclesiastes
Ecc 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecc 1:2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
Ecc 1:3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? ....................................
There is a wise conclusion at the very end but if anyone wants to know what it is, you will have to go read it your self.
There is so much more to just being saved. There are rewards to be received in front of our God Almighty. If all we did our whole lives for God was believe in Jesus Christ and his resurrection you will be ashamed and disappointed that you did not do more for Him. There are rewards, awards to be secured in our eternal life. Do more works, not for salvation but for rewards, study, speak and take a stand.