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Mildred was a church going born again Christian lady whose best friend Annie, who was not a Christian, suddenly died and went before the Judge of all souls.
Annie was sent to the place of self imposed torment prepared for the Judge's arch enemy Satan.
First day there she ran into many souls she knew. All had the same moaning, whining, groaning and complaining outlook. All were bitter, resentful, haters of God and His Son and the Holy Spirit.
Annie knew they should be there and felt no sympathy, but as for her, she felt she did not deserve to be there. She had been good and had done many acts of kindness to strangers.
Just because she hadn't believed in a God she could not see should not get her this kind of sentence, so she called out to the angel who had the keys to the Hell she was in.
He bid her come to him and she asked him to deliver a message to her friend Mildred.
Essentially it said, "You Mildred, believed with all your heart and soul that this hell I am in existed, yet you did not try hard enough to convince me of my need for a Saviour. I know I was a Doubting Thomas and I made it very difficult for you to speak about the Lord Jesus who I know now, is the Creator of all and who I saw sitting at the right hand of the Father. I thought I would be fine, able to speak to Him and explain everything but as I stood in line moving up towards Him, seeing His Awesome Presence, I just fell on my knees involuntarily and my mouth confessed to Him that He is God and I knew as I looked at Him that my time to save my soul was the time I had spent on earth denying His existence. How I wish that you had yelled at me, nagged at me, unceasingly about your Jesus. Yes, you Mildred are to blame."
As she said those words, there was a huge bellow of sound behind her and she turned abruptly and faced millions of souls laughing uproariously at her words, at her, and at her plight, her weak attempt to undo what no one could undo.
She turned back to the angel and said, " I get it, and I've always known it but chose to ignore, cover-up, make excuses, invent other "ways" to get to Heaven. I was doing it my way when there was already a Perfect and Holy way. I actually chose to listen to Satan's lies when I professed to not believe that he existed. Wow, he's good at what he does!"
And then she said" Do many souls call out to you like I did?"
"Oh yes, just about every one" said the angel.
"Does everyone admit to you where they went wrong?" she questioned.
"Oh yes", said the angel, " It's a combination of them speaking the truth yet using the last bit of cunning and conniving they have left to see if they can be transferred out of Hell. As if the God of the Universe makes mistakes."
"Oh" she murmurred and turned to leave when suddenly she was overwhelmed with the most horrifying sound.
Millions of souls crying, screaming,sobbing, moaning, in utter torment, knowing they had voluntarily put themselves in Hell, knowing that many had come their way in the name of Jesus, and they had put up a wall. Knowing they had squandered their life, and knowing that deep inside their soul they did know but chose to suppress that desire and fill that space with anything that life on earth offered them. ie. Lusts of the Flesh, & lusts of the Eye.
And then it began, a long low growl that became an agonizing howl, from deep within her, and she knew that she would be howling like this for eternity, joining the others in utter uncontrollable agony.
So it was she realized that the one last lie of the devil, (that she would be burned to nothingness in a matter of a few minutes) was also not truth.
It came to her mind how Mildred explained to her that her soul was an eternal soul. Never ending. She was going to be in this Hell for eternity, suffering when she just as easily could have chosen Eternal Life in Paradise - but for her stubborn unwilling spirit, to be changed and renewed by the Holy Spirit.
But the story goes on because the angel must deliver the message to Mildred who when she receives it is devastated also because her best friend is a sister of the human race as written in God's Word the Holy Bible.
And she Mildred had not prayed unceasingly for her friend, had not insisted she listen to the whole message of the Love of the Father for His Creation that He sent His Only Son Jesus, the Christ to the earth as a humble servant (of the Father) to be crucified on the Cross as a payment for the sins of all those who would come to the Father. Jesus was the only one who could do it, being Holy and without sin Himself.
Mildred received the message in a dream and upon waking she bowed before the Lord, repented and asked forgiveness and for courage and strength to minister to her human family.
Because of the power of Satan (who did test Jesus in the wilderness), only a Perfect Lamb for the slaughter would be able to cancel out the sins of the people who would call on His Name (Jesus). He is The Way. He is The Light. He is the Life. Choose Life in Him, follow His Light and start out on The Way back to God.
Holy Spirit, I pray you will convict to repentance all those of us who are Mildreds or Annies, and all those in between. Praise God and God Bless all who read this....An illustrative story/lesson.
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