The sprawling, manicured, brilliantly green lawn
looked like a perfect dining spot to Robby Robin.
He arrived early and he planned on staying late. Remaining until he had had his fill
of what he knew had to be an abundant gastronomic array of plump juicy worms lying just
below the velvet green surface in what had to be soft brown dirt below.
Robby landed gracefully and began his search. He was the first to arrive. He
wanted to be early. He figured the earlier he arrived the more he would have to eat
and the less he would have to share.
For hours, Robby roamed. He hunted and pecked until his beak was sore. He
walked until his little bird legs seemed bowed by the exertion. And all the while,
not another robin joined him. Robby thought he was so early that he simply out
distanced all the competition.
The day was growing old. Robby still hunted and still pecked, but with a whole lot
less enthusiasm. The sun was beginning to fade, the chill of night was slowly
creeping across his feathers.
Then there was flash and it appeared the sun had risen again. The green
was bright. Then Robby heard the sound of people. They were on all sides of
him. And oh no, some were running right towards him. Tossing white round
objects to each other.
Robby figured it was time for him to leave. He flexed his wings and soared up high
above his failed dining spot. He circled for a last look, this time observing the
walls that surrounded his plush green dining room, and the massive amounts of people who
had filled in along the walls to watch some other people hit and throw that little white
ball around.
Robby grumbled, "And they say the early bird gets the worm. All I got was a
sore beak from that hard dirt and sore feet from that strange grass."
The early bird gets the worm is an old cliche that has its place. It is good and
Godly to be on time.
But being early has nothing to do with God's mercy and grace, and you get no more special
salvation by being early than Robby received worms as he hunted and pecked at Astroturf
and concrete in search of a meal. What you do get is more time to enjoy the
fellowship of the Lord but your salvation will not be any greater than if you came late.
You can come any time and feed on God's Bread of Heaven.
It is not like some big families, you come late to the table and you don't eat.
God's provisions are boundless, His ability to serve more expansive than a 24-hour
diner.
And He who arrives at God's table last, will eat as well and as fully as He who arrived
first.
Robby thought earliness was the only criteria for feeding. He forgot a few items,
like it pays to know where you are eating.
Get to know the Lord and get to know the person who is taking you to Him.
Salvation is of the Lord. No church or person can give it to you. And not
everyone who says they will lead you to the Lord knows the way there themselves. Let
God talk to your heart and soul. Let God lead you to a shepherd who indeed has concern for
his flock and chooses his path using God and God alone as a compass, forsaking such
detours as greed and puffery.
Even writing to a collection of Christians, you can not sit back and assume that everyone
reading is saved. Only God knows how many times each message is forwarded around and
into whose hands it might eventually land.
So I am going to take a moment to do something totally different. I'm going to issue
you an online invitation to salvation.
I am issuing you an invitation to come to Jesus. Right where you sit. Right
where you are. It does not matter how old you are, nor does it matter how young.
It does not matter where you have gone in your life. Does not matter
how far you have strayed.
Just take a moment now and prepare yourself to come to Jesus.
If you have already come to the Lord, then I ask, as you receive this message you start
praying. Pray with me, that God will continue to show He can work through any
media. That God can be on time online. Pray that a soul, who has yet to know
the Word of the Lord will be saved.
Preachers, I ask you to prepare to open your doors to whoever may accept this invitation.
To prepare a place for those who the Lord may send. They may come from around the
world or your own backyard but I ask you touch and agree to offer safe harbor to those who
God through the internet brings in from the storms of the world.
Now if in your heart, you know you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior
it is time for you to make a change in your life. Do not go around pecking on
hard ground trying to receive artificial nourishment. It is time to accept
the Bread of Heaven and to drink from the Living Wheel, it is time to come to Jesus.
What do I have to do to be saved? You ask.
Repent in your heart. Reach down deep, dredge out those things you know you did that
were sinful and repent heartily that you have committed them. Be sorry, not pretend sorry.
It might even make some tears fall. But be sorry, really sorry for those
things you did that would displease God. Then confess with your lips...say it out
loud, it does not matter if you are in the office place, does not matter where you are as
this touches your soul, but confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
God is touching my heart and letting me know that someone is going to be saved today.
Never have I thought of doing this in this newsletter but God is leading me to
reach out to you, for there is someone who needs to be saved reading today. Someone
who needs to be bathed in the blood of the Lamb. Someone who may be late arriving
but who needs to be fed by the Lord.
I do not know if it be one or many, but when God touches you, [Click Here]. Send me a note and in your note say
you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and then tell me where you live so
I can direct you to one of the many pastors we have out here so you can be brought into
fellowship and given connection to a body of believers.
I know there is one out there today, so repent, and accept Jesus first, and then let me
know, reply to this newsletter, so we can help bring you into the body of believers.
The early bird may or may not get the worm. But a Christian will get the Bread of
Life, whenever He or She arrives!
