The Call

THE CALL

A parent sits at home on a rainy Sunday evening. TV commercials have brought boredom. Church services are in progress just a mile or so down the dirt road. The television program ends profitless. Channels are searched but surfing reveals nothing of interest. Rising and stretching with a satisfied, audible yawn, the parent walked to the window. Pulling open the shade revealed their eighteen year old daughter’s car was not in the drive way. That was not an unusual nor unexpected condition. Not many miles was a teen entertainment center. Satisfied that she would soon be home, the parent reclined for sleep. Having attended church periodically over the years, she recited “Now I lay me down to sleep. Etc” in peaceful slumber but then the noise of the church goers making their way home, disturbed sleep; the noise soon abated and sleep fell hard on a satisfied mind.

It was just past midnight when the call came. The daughter would not be coming home. She had entered a rain slick curve, lost control and sailed over a ninety foot embankment landing in deep water. She and her passenger lost their life there in the chilling river water of the local river. Shocked, confused and bewildered many thoughts began a kaleidoscopic in an unbelieving mind. So young and innocent, she had been taken to church services a few times. Was she prepared? Oh! Why was she not taught about God and involved in church activities. Had she understood and surrendered her life to God? Such, too late, questions flooded the parents mind. Over the next few days, while mourning the daughter’s passing, the truth struck home. She should have been led to the Lord. Many opportunities slipped past in the rain, snow, laziness and, well “you just couldn’t talk to her about God.” She had no christian friends and the call of the bright lights of sinful gatherings attracted her more. No one could answer the parents question: “will I see her again in heaven?” When the pastor answered that question with, “are you prepared to go to heaven yourself?” Then and there the parent gave their life over to God and became a mighty worker with teens. There is only a small amount of hope the girl will be waiting at heavens gate. She did not know to reach out to God as she sailed into the river and sank to a drowning death. That night the call came to a mind bored with earthly things and weak in spiritual matters.

Tears of sorrow will not bring back a decided loved one lost in sin nor will pleading with God for their soul result in bringing them to life again or out of the clutches of Satan.

We must ask ourselves, am I doing enough and have I given my all to the saving of family members and others. Anyone could have intervened in this Scenario child’s life; none did. Don’t let that be our lot. Do all you can do.

Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

1 Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

Ephesians 6:4 “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

Let not your heart be troubled. Know God, know peace. Amen. 06-05-2020 BLL