Golden Nuggets

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Greetings Saints in Jesus name!

Here's some good golden nuggets that landed in my incomming email box
this morning.

Bro. Tyler

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   In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge
slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel
clasps.  It belongs to a woman who did not believe in the resurrection of the
dead.  Yet strangely, she directed in her will that her grave be made so secure
that if there were a resurrection, it could not reach her.  On the marker were
inscribed these words:  "This burial place must never be opened."  In time, a
seed, covered over by the stones, began to grow.  Slowly it pushed its way
through the soil and out from beneath them.  As the trunk enlarged, the great
slabs were gradually shifted so that the steel clasps were wrenched from their
sockets.  A tiny seed had become a tree that had pushed aside the stones.

   The dynamic life force contained in that little seed is a faint reflection
of the tremendous power of God's creative word that someday will call to life
the bodies of all who are in their graves.  He will also bring back every
person drowned at sea, cremated, or destroyed in some other way.  This is no
problem to the One who made something out of nothing when He spoke the universe
into existence.  Unbelief cannot deter the resurrection. But faith in the risen
Christ opens the door to blessings that His resurrection guarantees -- a
glorious new spiritual body and a home in heaven.  In new bodies we will be
reunited with saved loved ones to live with Jesus throughout all eternity.

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   A beggar stopped a lawyer on the street in a large southern city and asked
him for a quarter.  Taking a long, hard look into the man's unshaven face, the
attorney asked, "Don't I know you from somewhere?" "You should," came the
reply.  "I'm your former classmate.  Remember, second floor, old Main Hall?"
"Why Sam, of course I know you!" Without further question the lawyer wrote a
check for $100.  "Here, take this and get a new start.  I don't care what's
happened in the past, it's the future that counts." And with that he hurried
on.

   Tears welled up in the man's eyes as he walked to a bank nearby. Stopping at
the door, he saw through the glass well-dressed tellers and the spotlessly
clean interior.  Then he looked at his filthy rags. "They won't take this from
me. They'll swear that I forged it," he muttered as he turned away.

   The next day the two men met again. "Why Sam, what did you do with my check?
Gamble it away?  Drink it up?"  "No," said the beggar as he pulled it out of
his dirty shirt pocket and told why he hadn't cashed it.  "Listen, friend,"
said the lawyer.  "What makes that check good is not your clothes or
appearance, but my signature.  Go on, cash it!"

   The Bible says, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved."  That promise is a "negotiable note" of infinite value.  And as
sinners, all we need to do is "exchange" it by faith for eternal life.  Don't
let the "tattered clothes" of your past keep you from cashing God's "check" of
salvation.

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   A little boy was offered the opportunity to select a dog for his birthday
present.  At the pet store, he was shown a number of puppies. From them he
picked one whose tail was wagging furiously.  When he was asked why he selected
that particular dog, the little boy said, "I wanted the one with the happy
ending."

   If we want to reach out for a life with a happy ending, we have no choice
but to accept the living Christ as our Lord and Savior, follow Him daily, and
rejoice in the eternal life that awaits us.