Tears for a Bunny but more Cares for the World

It’s Sunday night…well now it’s actually Monday morning, my husband is sound asleep on the sofa and I had to decided to go to bed. In my last writing I wrote about not being my worst enemy by not letting my past and thoughts envelop my future.

But you know, there will be times that you will remember something from the past and it has to be reckoned with as to why suddenly you remember something years later and what are you going to do with it?

When my brother and I were about 8 and 9 years old we were given a darling bunny rabbit. He was so adorable. We had not had him long and since my Father traveled we would sometimes go on week long trips as a whole family. Well this was a week long trip that ended in misery.

We had put the bunny in the basement with nourishment to last until we got back. To get down to the basement was a steep stairway. Well, when we got back we found this sweet little bunny, down at the bottom of the stairs dead. It totally broke my heart. So I’m lying in bed tonight thinking about what had happened. My Mother has always told me that I have too soft of a heart, but I don’t see that as a negative trait. I imagine that the bunny being left alone, felt isolated, he got lonely and he was afraid. So he hopped up those steep stairs to try to have those needs met. But the stairs were steep and when he turned around he fell down the stairs to his death. Just now I was thinking of this and I lay in bed and cried for almost an hour.

I said to God “surely after 40 years there would be some meaning for me to suddenly remember that story and even cry about it?” What is the purpose? What is Your purpose Lord?

There are so many people in this world who feel abandoned, alone and afraid, or just that something is missing. They reach out for help but all that is given is some temporary nourishment that just doesn’t fill their hearts. And other people cannot completely do that for them. Only Jesus can fill the deepest needs of the heart. People climb the steep stairs of life reaching for anything; false religions, disbelief that God exists, they search for intellegence, money, things and anyone or anything to meet their needs…but without Christ the Crucified they will fall back down every time and if they continue through this life without Jesus and reject him one day they will be at the bottom of the stairs and then sadly enough because they never accepted the Savior they will spend eternity in Hell.

Do you know how to truly know that if you died tonight you’d spend the rest of eternity in heaven? You can right now. FIRST: Ask God to block out anything or influence that would keep you from understanding this.

This is what it says in the Bible:
“For everyone has sinned (done wrong things): we all fall short of God’s standard.” Romans 3:23 (which means no one is good enough to measure up to God's perfection)

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 (God's love is a gift, but you have to accept a gift, it is totally free)

God saves you by his grace when you believe, you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift of God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. Ephesians 2: 8-9 (God has done something that we do not deserve, but it is all by his unmerited favor towards us, not by the good things we do because only Jesus through his death on the cross can be the bridge to God)

“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while were still sinners.” Romans 5:8 (God's timing is perfect)

You see? “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (God sent his son Jesus, His only Son because God knew there was no other to take our place for the penalty of our wrong doings, our sin)

It’s this easy: “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9-10
(Just pray a quick prayer and ask God to forgive you, ask Jesus to come be in your life and then thank him, God will completely clear every sin you've ever commited and your name will be written in the Lamb's Book of Life and you will spend forever in Heaven.)

The main question we will all be asked by God when we die or when this world comes to an end is "Did you know my Son? What will you answer? Will your name be in the Lamb's Book of Life?

Don’t delay it…do it today! None of us know when our lives will end. Life is short and we take it so for granted. My brother died at age 28 and I thank God that he chose to believe in Christ after being an antheist for so many years. God gave him a second chance before he died and my brother took it. We may give up on God but he will never, ever give up on us, unless we wait too late. My next blog soon will be a story about my brother. His name was Johnny. He is in Heaven now and I praise and thank God for that. There is no sin too great that God won't forgive. Goodnight.