Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Ground Zero Regrets - #8095

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Like you probably, I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when I learned of the awful events of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center. I guess we’ve all got vivid memories. I mean the unbelievable sight of airliners crashing into the World Trade Center Towers and then that heart-rending collapse of those towers with all those lives inside. On the two-year anniversary I saw a T.V. special that interviewed survivors about their memories. One lady who worked for an investment company recalled this: She said, “I got out alive, but my friend who worked near me didn’t.” And then these tears welled up in her eyes, and she said, “I only wish I’d asked him to go with me.”

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I saw that and it hit me like an arrow to the heart. When I get to heaven, when I see who of the people I cared about is there and who isn’t, will I say, “I wish I’d asked him to go with me. I wish I’d asked her to go with me.” The prophet Ezekiel gave us this sobering warning from God—he said, “When I say to a wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him in order to save his life, that man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood” (Ezekiel 3:18 ).

It’s clear that God holds each of us spiritually responsible for the people close to us. When you get to heaven, when you see Jesus, who you going to look for of the people that you weren’t sure would be there? “Jesus, is Scott here? Is Becky here?” What if He says, “Did you bring him? Did you bring her?”

Helping them go to heaven—a life can’t matter anymore than that. Our whole website’s there to help you do just that for your friends, ALifeThatMatters.org, because God put you here to live a life that matters.

This radio program references: Ezekiel 3:18