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Visiting
my nephew David was always fun. He loved to laugh and play. I can still
see his face with that endearing, slightly  crooked
smile which was the result of a childhood injury to a facial nerve. He and
my daughter would play for hours and we would
hear peals of laughter floating through the hallway reassuring us, their
mothers, that all was well. Their joy lightened our own
hearts. But for all the love and joy he brought, we all knew what was inevitable for David. He was a victim of cystic fibrosis. Each day he
had to take treatments and dozens of pills. His coughing at night would
keep him from sleeping well. His breathing became an
ever increasing problem. One night while when I heard the sound of his coughing, I slipped on my robe and went to his bedside. I told David the story of
how God sent His Son to the world to give His life to pay for our sins so
that we might be with Him forever after we leave this
life and have Him in our hearts while we are still here. That night the
eternal destiny of this precious little boy was changed
when he asked God to forgive his sins and come into his heart.
A couple of years later, when David was 14, an organization that grants the wishes of dying children selected David and
granted his wish. His wish was to meet Michael Jackson. He and his mother
were flown to California and there they spent time with
the singer who was very generous and courteous to them. At David's funeral,
the press made a big deal of his recent trip
and of the celebrity he had visited. As I sat at the funeral I knew that
the most recent trip David had made far exceeded the one he
had made to California and that the One who was now showing him through
His mansions was a light far brighter than any recording
star. None of us knows when our last day on earth will come. If you were to die tonight, do you know for certain that you would spend
eternity in heaven? You CAN know for sure.
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