The Traveler

1355 May 26, Logan Airport
I am sitting at the gate in the airport watching the hordes of people pulse by. There is one thought that is tracing its way through my mind. If the rapture were to happen right this moment would anyone notice. Would enough of people be taken up so that those left behind would notice? I’m watching thousands of people walk but how many are born-again Christians. When the trumpet sounds all these people headed toward glory, or something worse. As a Christian how am I supposed to reach these lost souls. These are people I’ll never see again, and I may be the only Christ they see. What am I supposed to do. Something. I’m supposed to do something. But what? What would Christ have done? Would he have sunk deeper into his chair, into his anonymity? Impotent? That is not the report we have in the Gospels! Christ reached out into the crowds, often selecting individuals. “Zacheaus, today I come to your house.” Jesus didn’t ask the crowd if anyone would like to go to dinner. He sought out an individual man, a wee little man in a tree. The Good News is spread man to man not man to crowd. The Gospel is spread by you and I telling our individual testimony to a lonely and lost man. I noticed the lady across from me is reading Mitch Albom’s Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven. I haven’t read the book. I wonder if she knows how to get to Heaven. I’m trying to get up the courage to be Christ-like. I’m very uncomfortable right now but I have read The Book. I know what I ought to do. Do I have the strength to do it? Can I press onward? So a quick prayer and off I go. God’s speed.

0000 May 27, Cambridge MD
I’m in my hotel room now. I did speak with the lady reading Albom’s book. I got up the nerve to simply make eye contact and ask her if she was enjoying the book. Stop laughing, this was quite a moment for me. The lady, Sue, was a grandmotherly figure. She was flying down to MD to attend her granddaughter’s high school graduation. I asked her how she liked the book. She told me about the book and I confessed that I only know Albom because he is a sports caster and I don’t have any intention on reading the book. In our conversation it became apparent that she was also believer, Bapist I think. She told me Albom’s view of Heaven was wrong and then proceeded to talk about a Heaven of fellowship with Christ. Sue was witnessing to me! I’m not sure why God put this woman in my path today, or why He choose today to intensify the burden on my heart. In this stream of conscience I just know what I’m supposed to do, seek Him. Listen for His voice. Submit to His plan. I don’t know the full plan yet, maybe the details will be filled in later. I know I am to be a tool in God’s hand. He will stretch me and use to reach the lost. I can be used. You can be used. If we submit to His direction, prompting and will.

God Bless
MCz