Finding a post rapture letter from Aunt Helen filled Colin with mixed emotions. In it she revealed how sick she was. She’d always been so vibrant and energetic, and he hadn’t noticed anything troubling in all his busyness.
This is part two of a previous fictional post: “Why am I still here?”
It turned out that while Helen believed in Christ’s imminent coming, she also expected die at any moment. The doctor warned that her condition was terminal. And so she made provisions for imminent death. A focus of this provision was to leave a message to her one and only beloved nephew.
Colin and Ashley had abruptly left during Pastor Barbra’s pious dismissal of the sudden and mysterious vanishing of millions of people. She insisted it was Gaia purging and healing herself from all the wrong people. But he and his girlfriend were not convinced. Apparently they weren’t the only ones who had misgivings. Several members of the church challenged her after losing loved ones in the Mysterious Vanishing.
In the subsequent few days, Ashley helped Colin sift through Helen’s belongings as she had no other family. Their true intention was to find a message; but both knew what to expect. They were confronted with the truth and chose to ignore it. But Helen and millions of people had vanished, and Colin and Ashley were still here. That truth could no longer be put off.
The Prayer Diary
One of the first things they found on Helen’s bedside table was her Prayer Diary, and lists of people and situations she prayed for. She prayed for nations and politicians, for pastors and their families and local churches, and their respective mission fields.
Ashley discovered that their names featured prominently in the Prayer Diary. Not only that, Helen constantly prayed for Barbra’s salvation; not only that her false doctrines be exposed. Yet her prayers were lovingly written. There was no hint of pride in them, for she meekly acknowledged that if “God saved her out of sin,” then He could save anyone.
They discovered a letter in a manila folder with Colin’s name on it, on the other bedside table.
Dear Colin
Aunt Helen got straight to the point. She questioned whether Colin and Ashley were truly Christians, though they professed to be. In summary:
Dear Colin,
You profess Christianity when you say one doesn’t have to believe in Christ to be saved? Your friend Barbra claims one can follow Allah, or Krishna or Buddha and do good works for salvation? What is salvation; and for what purpose are good works when one doesn’t believe in the resurrection, or sin, or heaven, or hell?
She says Jesus was a wonderful example to follow, but not God. Then Jesus was a liar, for He claimed to be God. Is that a good example? She talks about “spirituality. Do you know what that means, Colin?
You mentioned believing in heaven during our lengthy conversations. You insist that there are many ways to it. But Jesus said that He is the way, and the truth, and the life; and that no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). There is only one road to heaven!
Peter told us that there is salvation in no one apart from Christ, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).
It isn’t enough to admire the good works and ethics of Jesus Christ. You must believe that He is God and enter through the narrow gate. Unless you acknowledge your need of salvation you cannot repent of your sins, nor can you place your faith in a good man who is not God (John 3:16-21).
Dear Colin and Ashley, if I’m removed from this world by death or rapture, I fervently pray you bow and kneel to the High King of Heaven and ask Him to reveal the Truth to you. It’s never too late. Place your faith in Him now. Remember the thief on the cross!
All my love,
Aunt Helen.
“She’s right, you know,” whispered Ashley. “It’s been troubling me all week to be honest!” Tears streamed down her face as she looked at him. Colin took her hand and they knelt down together in prayer.
Have you placed your faith in Christ yet?
Maranatha!
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