memoiRs Of tHe dyiNg

This is one of the best explanations of why God
allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It’s
an explanation other people will understand.

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut
and his beard trimmed.

As the barber began to work, they began to have a
good conversation.

They talked about so many things and various
subjects.

When they eventually touched on the subject of
God, the barber said: "I don’t believe that God
exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to
realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God
exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would
there be abandoned children? If God existed, there
would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t
imagine a loving a God who would allow
all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn’t
respond because he didn’t want to start an
argument. The barber finished his job and the
customer left the shop. Just after he left the
barbershop, he saw a man in the street
with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed
beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.

The customer turned back and entered the barber
shop again and he said to the barber: "You know
what? Barbers do NOT exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised
barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just
worked on you!"

"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don’t exist
because if they did, there would be no people with
dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that
man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is that
people do not come to me."

"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That’s the
point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens is that
people don’t go to Him and do not look for Him.
That’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in
the world."

SATAN’S MEETING: (Read even if you’re busy)

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.

In his opening address he said,

"We can’t keep Christians from going to church."

"We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and
knowing the truth."

"We can’t even keep them from forming an
intimate
relationship with their saviour."

"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our
power over them is broken."

"So let them go to their churches; let them have
their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time,
so
they don’t have time to develop a relationship with
Jesus Christ.."

"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:

"Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour
and maintaining that vital connection throughout
their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and
invent innumerable schemes to occupy their
minds," he answered.

"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow,
borrow, borrow."

"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours
and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week,
10-
12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty
lifestyles."

"Keep them from spending time with their
children."

"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will
offer no escape from the pressures of work!"

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot
hear that still, small voice."

"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player
whenever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs
and their PCs going constantly in their home and
see to it that every store and restaurant in the
world plays non- biblical music constantly."

"This will jam their minds and break that union
with
Christ."

"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and
newspapers."

"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."

"Invade their driving moments with billboards."

"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order
catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of
newsletter and promotional offering free products,
services and false hopes.."

"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines
and TV so their husbands will believe that outward
beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become
dissatisfied with their wives. "

"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands
at
night."

"Give them headaches too! "

"If they don’t give their husbands the love they
need, they will begin to look elsewhere."

"That will fragment their families quickly!"

"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from
teaching their children the real meaning of
Christmas."

"Give them an Easter bunny so they won’t talk
about his resurrection and power over sin and
death."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."

"Have them return from their recreation
exhausted."

"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and
reflect on God’s creation. Send them to
amusement parks, sporting events, plays,
concerts, and movies instead."

"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"

"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship,
involve them in gossip and small talk so that they
leave with troubled consciences."

"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they
have no time to seek power from Jesus."

"Soon they will be working in their own strength,
sacrificing their health and family for the good of
the cause."

"It will work!"

"It will work!"

It was quite a plan!

The demons went eagerly to their assignments
causing Christians everywhere to get busier and
more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of
Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is, has the devil been
successful in his schemes?

You be the judge!!!!!

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-
oke?

Please pass this on, if you aren’t too BUSY!