Suppose you have a friend who tells you he is not a Christian, how do you feel when he dies? As a Bible believing Christian you know that there is a hell to be avoided as well as a heaven for which to reach . There is always hope for your friend. It all depends on Almighty God. He may reach out and save your friend at the very last minute of life, saying, “You are my child, I have redeemed you.” But we should not be complacent that this will always happen. We must make good use of the time we have with our friends to show them the way to faith in Christ.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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