The fishing was slim today, But our God is still Holy,and Righteous! He placed Roger in my path today, and well... OK, let me start from the beginning. Today (Wednesday) is my regular "scheduled" fishing day, and as I proceeded to my regular spot, I handed out some "AMERICA,AMERICA" tracts, always a great tract. Most people don't even question it as they look down when I hand them out. As I was heading down the far side of the railroad tracts, I saw a man rounding the corner, and said to myself "OH, YOUR NOT GETTING AWAY FROM ME" Hmm not sure why I said that? I walked to the bus terminal and there was that man. I grabbed a million dollar bill tract and handed it to him. He said "NO WAY" grabbed it and laughed. I told him it had a Gospel message on the back, and then asked him if he had any religious background? He said he kinda did and that he was catholic. I asked his named and he told me his name was roger. I asked him where he thought we went after we died, and he said he didn't think we went anywhere. He said he didn't believe in heaven or hell. I told him that If I didn't believe in gravity and threw myself off of the train office behind us, when I hit the ground, it wouldn't matter what I believe, but the what matters, is the truth!
I took him through the law, and the Gospel, but he refused to believe that there was punishment for our breaking Gods' law. He said that we couldn't make analogies about man's law when referencing Gods' law. I kept trying to bring him back to his violation of the law, and his deserving of punishment. We had a lot of discussions about church "laws" as he called them and about what the bible says about hell, punishment, grace and salvation. Well, we agreed to disagree I left him a few tracts and told him to consider what we had talked about and that the back of the tracts will remind him of our conversation! I had to leave for my appointment, and was a bit late.... But WELL worth it! From the perspective of fishing... I had a big one hooked, but couldn't get him to get in the boat (of truth!)
Keep those lines in the water, and nets filled!
Robert
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