Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
A couple of days ago I got this phone call from a stranger, 82; has read my little book The Nearness of the Savior, likes it, wants to talk with me. Hoping I could share a morsel of the bread of life with someone, I said, Come.
Turns out he wanted to inform me of the “science” of “Cryonics,” said scientists have proven they can make old rats be young rats again. So when you die, they inject some antifreeze in you, keep you frozen in a cold vault until such time as scientists perfect their technique, then they will thaw you out and make you a young person again.
My visitor said he wants to believe in Jesus but needs demonstrable scientific evidence that Christ’s method for eternal life is better than Cryonics. Kept saying he would listen, but it was difficult. I prayed for wisdom; what to say?
I do have urgent work to do; I couldn’t spend the day. I proceeded to explicate the love (agape) that is in John 3:16 which is ably demonstrated beyond “science” in the death to which Jesus gave Himself on His cross. I gave him my little book The Word that Turned the World Upside Down, and at the end asked him to kneel with me on the grass and let me pray.
At least I learned something in the visit. The dear Lord as Savior will save anyone who will let Him do it. But anyone who is not hungry and thirsty for the bread and the water of life, apparently can’t ingest it (Matt. 5:6). “Remember now your [Savior] in the days of your youth before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’” (cf. Eccl. 12:1). I learned yesterday to appreciate anew what Hebrews 3:7-15 says: when the Holy Spirit speaks to your young heart “today,” grab the opportunity now with all the energy you have!
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