Feb 02, 2005 13:37
If I threw a birthday party for you where every guest would receive $100,000 in cash and a Mercedes convertible, and I gave you fifty tickets to your party, how many people would you have at your party? No doubt, you would have fifty people. In fact, if on the way to your party you realized that you had a ticket remaining in your pocket, and you saw a homeless man, you would give him your extra ticket. Isn't that similar to what God has done for us? He has given us a pocketful of tickets, and it is our job to hand out ticket after ticket to a place called heaven."
"Do you realize how many Christians are going to die and stand in front of God with a pocket full of tickets to go to heaven? You had all these tickets to heaven. You could have given them away to anyone you wanted to, but you died with your pocket filled with tickets to heaven. My goal is that as I am about to die, I hand my last ticket to a police officer or an ambulance driver or an emergency room doctor. And then I'll take my last breath, die, and stand in front of the throne of God with no tickets to heaven left in my pockets."
--One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven, Mark Cahill