This Is Your Life

Monday 18/08/14 13:37 PM - Lm. Jack McArdle ss cc

I remember speaking to a man sometime ago who had been very very interested in soccer. He was dying of cancer and the European Championships were on at the time. His married sons would bring him videos of all the games that had been on. He was fascinated by soccer and would watch video games on television for hours. At the end of the summer, after the European Championship, he was too weak now even to sit up in bed and I remember sitting with him one day talking and I said, 'Do you know what happens when you die?' Luckily enough he did not ask me how I knew, but he said, 'What?' So I said, 'The Lord sits you down and he puts on a video and it's called, This is your life. It's a very long video. You sit and watch this and you're not sure what you're going to see. Not just things that you remember but things you'd forgotten. and you're a little bit ill at ease. You're not sure what's going to come up. What actually happens is that there are blanks and then more and more blanks, and eventually it dawns on you that these were times when you did something wrong and you admitted it. God just pressed the erase button and wiped it out, because that's the kind of God he is. If you asked him what they were he couldn't tell you. When God forgives, he suffers from total amnesia and forgets. That's why I'm delighted that I'll be judged by God. I wouldn't trust people at all!'

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