Sunday, August 12, 2007

Illustration - Word Document

This just came to me, and it may be that it's 3:30am, but I thought it to be a neat little illustration.

When you open up a document on your computer, it is a blank screen, ready to be typed upon. You can type a couple of words, or you can jazz it up with pictures, borders, some columns maybe...anything to make it cool-looking. When you hit the "X" button at the top of the screen, you are, by closing the program, ending the life of the document. All of the words on the page, whether 2 or 2,000, do not matter; the document will be destroyed upon exit. But a little dialog box pops up, and asks you a great question: "Document1 has not been saved. Would you like to keep it?" The document, no matter how cool-looking or productive or fancy it is, will be deleted if it is not saved before exiting the word procesor...

If you are that document, no matter how many things you have done in your life to please God, no matter how many cool "features" your life may have, when the X button is pressed on your life, what will happen next? Will you be deleted, erased from memory, gone forever with no way to be recovered? Or will God, through your repentance of sins and declaration of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, have pressed the "Save" button, and permanently inscribed your file name in His (and this is a stretch) "Hard Drive of Life"?

Wow, now that I write that, I can tell that is a 3:45am kind of illustration. Comments on that are greatly welcomed! Oh well, at least He forgives me for lame posts :-) Goodnight everyone!

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