Dear Rangers,
Here is a tale of a man who has an unusual encounter; “As I was walking down the road
saw two men standing together and talking. As I approached I saw the two clearly,
one was handsom and seemed very strong, the other, well, was kind of plain looking.
As I neared them they fell silent, looking at me, with a strange look as though I had
stumbled onto a private party.
Soon I was standing in front of them. The hansom one said “Hello, my friend,
I’ve been waiting for you.” A puzzled look came to my face. “Waiting for
me?” I thought, “They don’t know me.” The Hansom stranger spoke again,
‘Ah, but we do know you.” I stood dumbfounded. “How can they know me.”
The hansom one replied as though he read my thoughts. “It does not matter how I know,
What is important is what I can give you. Look around and see.” It was then I saw all
my dreams come true, the car I wanted, the girl I like, the house, the success, everything
just laying there. He said “all you have to do is follow me and all this is
yours.”
I started to walk with him but stopped and looked at the other man. “What can you
offer me.” I said. He looked straight at me his eyes pieced my soul, his voice made
me shake. “I offer a road to travel on that is hard and demands your all.” He
said. “The reward for completing this journey is to be with me forever.” I
looked at him with disdain, here was my chance a fame and fortune and he was asking me to
go on a hike on hard trail. The hansom one laughed and said “See he has nothing to
offer you.” Yet there was something in the look of the plain man, something I could
not fathom, it was though he had something in him.
He looked at me and said “Yes there is fame and fortune to made with him, but will it
last?” I replied “Give one good reason why I should follow you.” I
demanded. He looked at me with sad face and said “My dear child, I love so much I
gave my life for you. See the scars on my wrists and legs. See my back
that was flogged 39 times for you.” I looked at him and thought the sun was
playing tricks with my eyes because behind him I saw a wooden tower with him nailed
cruelly there. At the bottom of the cross the hansom one stood and laughed. I looked again
and then I saw the love in his heart flow out like his blood had on the cross. It was then
I know that his road was the best.
I looked at him and tried to speak but could only cry. He looked at me and said “It
was for those tears I died. That I may dry them from your face.” He knew my heart, I
could feel his love around me. It was then I decided that I would follow him and the
hansom one. I managed to say “Yes I follow you on that long, hard road.” The
hansom one let out a growl that made me shiver and he said “I will hound you to your
dying day for this, I will make your life a misery.” The plain one stood between him
and me and said “You will not harm this child of mine, I died for him and now
I’m alive, I give power over you and when he tells you to go you will go.” It
was then I saw the hansom man was not hansom at all. His face was twisted and gnarled in
pain, his strength has gone.
I said to him “Tell me who are you.” He quivered and said “I am Lucifer,
the Prince of lies I replied “I thought you had strength and power, but you have
nothing. You’re a loser, Lucifer, a real loser. You tried to sell me something you
did not have. Be gone from me.” And with terrible scream he fled down the
road. I turned to the plain man but he was gone instead stood a man and hear a voice Then
I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden
lampstands, and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with
a long robe and with a golden sash across
his chest. His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were
like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and
his voice was like the sound of many waters. In his right hand he held seven stars, and
from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with
full force. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right
hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living
one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of
Hades, see me now as I truly am, in all my glory. I looked and cried “I know your
name.” I said “It is Jesus the Christ!” Jesus looked at me and said
“Well done my brother, from this day forth you will be my brother. My Father in
Heaven has adopted you as his son.”
So together we walk the long and hard trail, I know he is with me every step of the way
protecting me with his love. When Lucifer comes around he gives me the power to fight him
off. It is a hard road we travel but he is always there. I wish I could say that this is
the end but it is not for I still have a ways to go before I reach home and meet in Father
in Heaven.
Amen
A fellow Traveler
Dear Friends,
We have a choice to make whether to accept Jesus as our Personal Savior or reject him. In
Romans 3:23 it says “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God”. Sin is
anything that goes against God’s word. Just as we get paid for the work we do for our
employer, sin has its’ price, death. Romans 6:23a says “The wages of sin is
death.” This death is being cut of from God for all eternity. God does not want us to
be cut off from Him. In John 3:16-17 it says “"For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to
save the world through him. God loved us so much, He sent his only son to die for us that
we might live. This is God’s gift to us (but the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6;23b). So how we claim this gift? In 1 John 1:9 we read
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness.” So we must ask God to forgive our sins and
confess that Jesus is Lord and we will be saved. We must then live our lives according to
His word, The Bible. My dear friends, Jesus is here now waiting for you. He says
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. (Revelations 3:20). The question is
now “What are you going to do with Jesus? Accept Him or reject Him?
If you accept him please let us know so we can send you some literature. You can e-mail us
by the address on the home-page or to founder1@summit.net.au.
Your Brother in Jesus
Adrian Bonham
This is the YEAR OF JUBILEE. LET'S PROCLAIM GOD'S LOVE TO A DYING WORLD Say to the
captives, 'come out,' and those in darkness, 'Be free!' Isaiah 49:9 I looked to the
heavens to where God dwells I looked into my life to see he lives there as well. Love in
Jesus Morning Light Adrian Bonham Outpost 49 Hawkesbury Royal Rangers Windsor, N.S.W.
Australia F.C.F. 94
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