Lost…Four Souls
Something important came up; he doesn’t remember what, but he decided it would not hurt to miss church this once. She hated to go without her husband; the two children were difficult to manage without help, so she missed too. The conscience worked overtime that day. A short time later they decided to go on a Sunday out-of-town trip and missed again. Conscience spoke again, but the voice was softer. With each succeeding absence their spiritual appetite diminished.
Fellow Christians were concerned and came to call. But they started to resent their concern because it made them uncomfortable. No one ever goes back to see them. Many have tried, but their interest was not welcomed. They are now left alone in their sin and their darkness.
Their loss is sad enough, but the loss of the two children, now teenagers, is even more tragic. They never got a chance to know God. It all began with the mistaken idea that it wouldn’t hurt to miss “just this once.” Hebrews 10:25 “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”
ELDER CORNER
Gary Culbreath