One morning about seven o’clock, Robert had quite a surprise when he went out to do the farm chores. “I heard this funny noise,” he said. “I looked up and was amazed to see two raccoons on top of my silo!” The two masked creatures didn’t seem to be uneasy about their perch, but Robert was concerned. He was not sure they could figure out how to get back down.
A little later Robert heard an awful crash! He hurried outside to see what had caused it and found that one of the raccoons had fallen, landing on the metal roof of the feed shed below. Robert thought that a fall that far would surely have killed the raccoon, but it didn’t. He watched amazed as the raccoon shook himself, looked around and climbed right back up the side of the silo! Both raccoons stayed up there all day. During the night the farmer heard chattering and thumping off and on. But the next morning the two daring raccoons were gone.
In telling the story Robert said he wondered if the two raccoons were trying to climb to heaven. What a foolish thought! We read in the Bible that many, many years ago there were people living on the earth who got the idea they would build a tower “whose top may reach unto heaven.” Genesis 11:44And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Genesis 11:4). The Lord God saw what these people were doing, and He was not pleased about it. He did not permit the people to continue all speaking the same language, “that they may not understand one another’s speech.” Genesis 11:77Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (Genesis 11:7). This made it impossible for them to go on working together. So in the next verse we are told they had to stop building that city and tower called Babel.
Even today people have some confused ideas about getting to heaven. Some boys and girls, and even grown-ups too, think if they are kind and helpful, doing good or even going to Sunday school every week, that for sure God will take them to heaven. However, God has only one way for us to reach heaven. The Lord Jesus tells us, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6). God’s way to heaven is by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour — your own Saviour. The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, was shed to wash away sins (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)). Have you ever asked Him to wash away your sins? This is the only way to reach heaven, God’s way, and be with the Lord Jesus Christ forever in that wonderful place called heaven. “In Thy presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” Psalms 16:1111Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. (Psalm 16:11). Will you be there?
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