> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:06:41 -0500 (EST)
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> Subject: [New post] The Moment You Die
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> New post on His Fresh Wind Blog
> The Moment You Die
> by pastorzuray
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> Death. We all have one thing in common. There will come a day when we take our last breath and die. It could happen today or we may have the blessing of a long life. The reality of life is that there is death.
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> If you have ever wandered around a book store you've noticed a growing genera of books known as self-help books. Millions of books are sold yearly to people trying to get their best life now. It doesn't matter what someone's religious or secular world view is, people want to have a long and full life. The problem is, we can't escape the death that comes at the end.
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> I don't mean to be morbid today, but realistic. My 8th grade daughter Anna has been reading about the Holocaust and the famous young woman Anne Frank. Her class was asked to write a poem expressing the emotions of that dark time. This poem moved me deeply. Take a moment to read it.
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> Why?
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> I hear them walking closer and closer,
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> Their feet pound on the gravel that leads to my house.
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> I know why they’re coming,
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> They’re coming for me.
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> They pound down my house door!
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> They fire their guns!
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> I hear the screams of my father, mother, and sister,
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> Then I hear three thumps on the floor.
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> I’m still hidden under my bed.
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> Will they find me?
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> Will I soon be dead?
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> Their pounding feet approach my bedroom door.
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> I hear the shouts, I hear their commands,
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> The commands that demand my death.
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> Will I live? Shall I survive?
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> These thoughts keep frantically going through my head.
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> BANG!
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> My door is burst through and the Nazi soldiers enter my room.
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> They throw my chair on the floor!
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> They take the papers from inside my desk and throw them everywhere.
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> Then the man with the star covered boots stops,
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> Then, he turns toward my bed.
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> All is quiet, not one sound is heard.
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> Do I dare to breathe?
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> Not a chance.
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> My heart pounds so heard that I’m scared the Nazis will hear it.
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> The Gestapo walks closer to my bed and then flips it over.
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> I scream and scream and scream!
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> But what’s the point, nobody will hear me!
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> Even if somebody does hear me, they won’t care.
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> The man grabs me by the arm and pulls me out into the street.
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> Will he shoot me or will I be spared?
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> Hundreds of people all around me are covered in blood, bruises and tears.
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> We are all going to die because of the star on our chest.
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> I try to escape, but I fail.
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> I’m much too weak compared to the Nazis grasp.
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> I try again and then I break free!
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> I begin to run, but I am stopped by a horrific noise!
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> Then a sudden pain.
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> There’s something inside me, a bullet I guess.
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> Why did they shoot me?
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> I’m just a kid!
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> Soon the world goes black.
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> I know I will never see the daylight again.
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> When I read this poem I felt as if I was the child under the bed. To think that so many people experienced such a moment is hard to accept. Saddly, the reality that we face in life is that there is death. However, the reality of God is that there is hope. I find it incomprehensible that God gave the world Jesus and the world says "No!" God says there is life in my Son and the world says "Go Away!" God declares that man does not have to earn his eternal life but religion says "DO! DO! DO!"
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> I don't know what your plans are when this life comes to an end but let me encourage you to realize we all need a Savior and must put our faith only in Him for Salvation. He promises eternal life to those that would simply believe that Jesus death on the cross is the only hope for having my sins removed. Jesus paid for the gift that brings the hope of eternal life. Don't turn away from the only hope we have.
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> Our last breath, in this life, will come someday. The good news is, God has given us the way to have eternal life through the sacrifice of Jesus.
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> “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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> For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9
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> Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
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> Please contact me if you would like to discuss this topic further.
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> pastorzuray | February 10, 2012 at 12:13 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pQ4yE-5q
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