TRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH MISSIVE

                           Vol. 7:–No: 37(December 25, 2016)

Philippians 4:13-“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

 A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell. The Lord said to the man, “Come, I will show you hell.” They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate, and starving. Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their mouths. The suffering was terrible.

 “Come, now I will show you heaven,” the Lord said after a while. They entered another room, identical to the first—the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there, everyone was happy and well-nourished.

 “I don’t understand,” said the man. “Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?”

 The Lord smiled. “Ah, it is simple,” he said. “Here they have learned to feed each other.”