GOODBYE OR GOOD NIGHT 4
I wondered what made mine so different from every other person so I quickly looked up to my father and asked him why he told everyone else Goodnight and told me Goodbye. He looked at me again, and then looked at every other person in the sitting room. At that point, everyone wanted to know why as well, so everyone sat back down on their respective cushions and looked intently at father begging with their eyes to know why there was a difference. Father then bowed his head, raised his head up again, looked at everyone again, looked at the ceiling, like he was searching for the right words and then looked at me and said, My son, in the morning, when the sun shall rise and we all wake up, I would see each and every other person in this house. I would meet them again, but you, I don't know where you would be, I don't know if the sun would rise with you, I don't know if I would see you again, and that is why, I said Goodbye to you rather than Goodnight.
I know, the first thing that would come to your mind is that you think I was going to die, but that's not it. If I were dead, you won't be reading this now. I wasn't going to die that night or the next night or the night after that. I would live to a ripe old age. But that was also the first thing that came to every other person's thought in my house that night, including me. But then my father picked up his bible and read 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 to us. He explained to us of how when those who live in Christ, in accordance with His words, who have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour die, only sleep as they sleep in Christ and would on the day the trumpet sounds, would rise and all meet in heaven and there would be rejoicing. It was then that everyone understood what Father was talking about. At that point, it was like I came to a realization of all that I have been hearing since I was a child, all my mother had been saying to us, all that I had read in the bible, they all seemed so real, so alive, so true, I could see my sins place out right before my very eyes like I was watching a movie in a cinema and I knew then that I was filthy, filled with sin, unclean and dirty and I began to weep.
I know, the first thing that would come to your mind is that you think I was going to die, but that's not it. If I were dead, you won't be reading this now. I wasn't going to die that night or the next night or the night after that. I would live to a ripe old age. But that was also the first thing that came to every other person's thought in my house that night, including me. But then my father picked up his bible and read 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 to us. He explained to us of how when those who live in Christ, in accordance with His words, who have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour die, only sleep as they sleep in Christ and would on the day the trumpet sounds, would rise and all meet in heaven and there would be rejoicing. It was then that everyone understood what Father was talking about. At that point, it was like I came to a realization of all that I have been hearing since I was a child, all my mother had been saying to us, all that I had read in the bible, they all seemed so real, so alive, so true, I could see my sins place out right before my very eyes like I was watching a movie in a cinema and I knew then that I was filthy, filled with sin, unclean and dirty and I began to weep.
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