Friday, September 12, 2008

Wonderful Illustration

Nice illustration:
There was this man who wanted to get into the paradise. He saw this shop ahead of him called ' Paradise ' and walked in and asked the man standing behind the counter 'how can I get into paradise?' The man said, 'No Problem man,' and gave him a 'five foot' plank and took him to the back of the store. He then showed him a long narrow winding road and told him that he had to carry this plank all the way, and when he got to the end, he would be in paradise. So the man started on his journey walking up this narrow winding road. He walked for miles and miles and the plank that he was carrying started to get heavy, so he broke off a foot of the plank and continued walking. He now had four feet of this plank left and as he progressed on his journey, the plank once again started to get heavier and heavier. He broke off another foot. He was now left with three feet. He continued on his journey as he came closer, he saw this sign that said ' Paradise '. Now in order for him to get into paradise he had to cross a cliff that was ahead that had a 'five foot' gap!

The moral of the story is that Jehovah has arranged five weekly meetings per week to take us through to paradise. If we miss one, (the one foot that the man broke off) or even two, (the other foot that he broke off), then we are missing a lot of meetings. This is not the time to be slacking off no matter how tired we are on meeting nights. It is going to get harder too. Next year we move to three meetings on one night; if we miss that day, we will be missing 'three meetings! So let us all strive to be at each meeting, no matter how tired mentally or physically we might be. I want to see you all in the 'paradise.' So let us continue to fight the fine fight. We are too close now, can't you feel it?

1 comment:

Brandon said...

thats a pretty good illustration! it shows us that the meetings are our lifeline into the new system! thank you ate Thelly for a great illustration! We didnt get to say bye last time because you left soo early. anyway it was cool that you came over, even without the girl talks!! just kidding!!
say hi too the family for me!!
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girl talk boy