The man huddled on the cabin floor was slowly freezing to death.
It was high in the Rockies in southwestern Alberta, and outside a blizzard
raged. John Elliott had logged miles that day through the deep snows of the
mountain passes. As he checked for avalanches and as dusk and exhaustion
overcame him he had decided to "hole-up for the night."
He made it
wearily to his cabin but somewhat dazed with fatigue, he did not light a fire or
remove his wet clothing. As the blizzard blasted through the cracks in the old
cabin walls, the sleeping forest ranger sank into oblivion, paralyzed by the
pleasure of the storm's icy caress.
Suddenly, however, his dog sprang
into action, and with unrelenting whines, finally managed to rouse his
near-comatose friend. The dog was John's constant companion, a St. Bernard, one
of a long line of dogs famous for their heroics in times of crisis.
"If
that dog hadn't been with me, I'd be dead today," John Elliott says. "When
you're freezing to death you actually feel warm all over, and don't wake up
because it feels too good."
Life can be like that too. Millions of
people, whose lives are filled with the pleasures and occupied with the pursuits
of the world, are lulled to sleep spiritually, warm and cozy in their
complacency, oblivious to the fact that they are heading pell-mell towards a
lost eternity without God and without hope.
Dear God ...
please use me
...
to help awaken those ...
who are spiritually asleep ...
and unaware
...
that they are ...
on their way ...
to a lost eternity
...
without you ...
Thank you for hearing and answering my prayerz ..
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