Sunday, April 17, 2011

How Far Is It Between Heaven and Hell?

This is a TRUE story:
There were two boys who had become orphans at a very early age of two and three. They were in homes of all sorts and when they got seventeen and eighteen they decided they wanted to leave and have a life of their own. They bought themeselves a trailor across from an old white church. They were the talk of the town.  "Those boys are wild and will never amount to anything" they would say. Everyone talked about them so bad, so they began to become what everyone said..."Wild". One day the pastor of the church across the street saw them outside and invited them to church. They decided to go one Sunday and they sat on the very back pew. Every Sunday they came back and always sat on the very same pew. The pastor would preach what God gave him and God would begin to convict those boys hearts, but they continued to sit there. One Sunday, as church let out the pastor stopped the boys and asked "why?"..."Why didn't you allow God into your life?" He knew the conviction was there! The boys replied, "I have stuff I have to take care of first" and they went on about there way across the street home. One of the boys ran back across the street with a curious look on his face. "How far is it between Heaven and Hell?" he asked. The preacher pondered on it but said he didn't really know and the boy went on his way.
Early that Tuesday morning, the phone rang at the preachers house and it was the deacon of the church. The deacon began to tell the preacher that there was an accident and that he shoud come to the church as soon as possible. The whole way there the preacher prayed that it wasn't those two boys. When he arrived, he saw their trailor had burnt to ashes and the boys had died in it. The two boys had their funneral and were burried. After the funneral, the preacher went to the steps of the burnt trailor and began to count each step he took until he got to the alter....1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10................61. It was only 61 steps . 61 steps between Heaven and Hell!

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