Letter from Hell

Featured Article from the Original Baptist Observer, Issue July 2012

I ALWAYS HAD THE CHANCE I KNOW BUT MANY TIMES I PASSED IT BY, TO CHOOSE THE PLACE THAT I WOULD GO, WHEN LIFE WAS DONE, AND I WOULD DIE.

I NEED NOT DO IT NOW I THOUGHT FOR I’M HAVING SO MUCH FUN. EACH TIME CONVICTION STIRRED, I FOUGHT OLE’ SATAN AND I, WE ALWAYS WON.

MY HEART WAS HARDENED, I COULD NOT SEE THAT I WAS LOST IN SIN, OR THE SAVIOR THERE PLEADING WITH ME, ASKING TO COME IN.

THE YEARS SPED BY, AND SOON WERE GONE, BUT STILL I CHOSE TO WAIT. SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY, BEFORE MY LIFE IS DONE, I’LL CHOOSE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE.

BUT THEN ONE NIGHT DEATH CAME TO MY DOOR, AND LOOKED AT ME WITH A NOD OF HIS HEAD. “NO!” I CRIED. “IT CAN’T BE ME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR, FOR I HAVEN’T MADE MY CHOICE.” I SAID.

“YOU FOOL!” HE SAID, “YOUR LIFE IS DONE, I’VE NO MORE TIME TO WAIT, YOU MADE YOUR CHOICE, BUT IT WAS WRONG, FOR YOU IT’S MUCH TOO LATE.”

AND THEN HE QUICKLY TOOK ME TO WHERE I AM TODAY. I’LL SUFFER HERE ETENALLY. FOR MY CHOICE, THIS IS THE PRICE I PAY.

DEAR FRIEND, THERE’S TIME LEFT FOR YOU, ACCEPT THE SAVIOR, HE’S PLEADING TO COME IN. DO IT NOW, YOUR LIFE MAY SOON BE THROUGH, AND HE WILL CLEANSE YOU OF YOUR SIN.

MAKE THE CHOICE, DON’T HESITATE, DON’T WAIT TO FIND YOU WERE WRONG. DO IT NOW, PLEASE DON’T WAIT, FOR ETERNITY IS OH SO LONG.

SISTER JUDY MICKEL