PUSSY was a warehouse cat and a pet of all the staff. It was a busy day at the warehouse for the men were busy loading hides into a box car. The hides were being sent to a boys' prison.
Pussy scampered around the warehouse looking for mice, and then she jumped right into the box car. No one knew she was there. When the car was filled the men closed and sealed the door. Sometime after the car was hitched to a freight train and was soon rolling across the country with Pussy inside.
Inside the box car it was dark and cold and every time the engine shunted Pussy felt the jerk. She did not like it in the box car and she meowed as loud as she could, but no one heard her. Many hours later the train stopped and the box car was shunted onto a siding. When the men at the prison opened the door out jumped Pussy. They decided to keep her for a pet.
The day following when the men at the warehouse found Pussy was gone they telephoned the prison. Yes, the men at the prison said, we have your cat. So they put her in a crate and sent her back home.
Pussy really did go to prison, but the prison was not made for cats. It was made for bad boys and men who break the law. And so it is with the prison house of hell. Hell was made for Satan and his angels (Matt. 25:4141Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matthew 25:41)), but sinners who refuse God's mercy and offer of salvation will go there at the end. There is no other place for them to go.
But God doesn't want anyone to go there. Jesus has died to save us from judgment, from going down to the pit, and no one will be there but who couldn't have been saved from it.
We hope that none of our readers will refuse the grace of God and have to be sent to that awful place where souls will be tormented forever. God longs to save you from it, for "God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8). "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."
Messages of the Love of God 12/7/1975