Room To Room
／By Hsiao Ching
My dog, Tiara, follows me everyday from room to room. In the living
room, while I read, she lays on the oriental carpet by my feet. When
I am in my room changing, she jumps up on the bed. Outside our screen
porch, she loves to sit between my feet as I slouch on the reclined
lounge chair. Even in the bathroom, as I brush my teeth, she will plop
herself on the shower rug.
No matter where I go, she always wants to be with me. She doesn't
want to be alone. I love her and it makes me happy that she follows
me room to room.
When she is sick, I know right away because she stations herself
at on place, too weak to move. Sometime she is so ill, she can hardly
pick her head up. I know she still wants to be with me, even when she
is not well. So, I pick her up and travel room to room, holding her
in my arms and placing her on each of her favorite, soft places.
Some day she will be too old to move with me. The doctor says she
will probably be blind and crippled. When this happens, I am ready to
carry her with me each time I enter a room and leave it, because I know
she would want it that way. Each room I will place her in her favorite
resting position.
I wonder how many people today are following God from room to room.
Do you want to be with Him? If you follow Him on earth, when it comes
time, He will carry you to be with Him when you are not able, all the
way to heaven. Because He knows that is what your desire is, He will
comply.
However, if your answer is "no", and you are not following God and
do not want to be with Him, you have already made your final decision
known. Be ready to be alone. The definition of Hell is separation from
God.
Rethink your position while you have time. If you do not want God
on earth, why would you want God in heaven?
Jesus said, "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust
also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so,
I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you
to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the
place I am going." (John 14:1-4 NIV)
Follow Him who loves you and no matter what happens, He will carry
you from now unto eternity…room to room…till we reach our Heavenly
Father's mansion. .
