Sitting on the train, I saw two elderly women walk up to the train's open doors and stop. They began an animated discussion, arguing about whether this was the right train to get on or not. One seemed adamant this was the wrong train and refused to get on. Finally, at the last possible moment, the other woman won the debate and they both stepped on the train without a moment to spare, for the doors whisked shut as soon as they stepped on.
                                                   There are so many that hesitate
                                             when it comes time to decide their fate.
                                            They choose to pause, they choose to wait,
                                                    but if they do not board
                                                     The Glory train, sent by the Lord,
                                                 They'll be stranded at the station -
                                              The fruit of hesitation,
                                                        They'll weep and they'll gnash their teeth
                                                  because of their fear or unbelief
                                                     or their fleshly lusts and desires
                                                         that kept them out of God's empire....

And it was the only train available, going one way only. She didn't know it, that elderly lady, but it was her only choice. So many think they have a choice, as to which path to Heaven they'll take - one of the major religions or none at all. One of the 33,000 paths Christianity offers, but in reality we have only one choice - Jesus, whom we see, and accept and come to know by the inner working of His Spirit.
The woman who hesitated almost kept her friend from boarding the train. Friends can lead friends to Hell just as surely as any demon can. In the name of friendship, how many have refused to touch the hem of His garment when He passed by? How many have refused to forsake their church body and become followers of Christ, becoming His body?
The tragedy is that so many believe they are already sitting on His Glory train but in truth do not have a seat or even a ticket. They've never experienced His glory, His Spirit descending and resting on them, infilling them with His glorious presence. Other's do get a ticket for God's Glory train, and clutch it tightly, believing it's their "get out of Hell free" card, but when the Glory train visits them, they don't get on board. They watch it come and they watch it go - they watch others get on board and they applaud them and laud them but they never get on themselves. They're content to watch others enter in, and they even testify - I saw the Glory train pass me by. Churches even schedule stops for the Glory train - I had a taste of it, I saw the anointing and tasted of the Holy Spirit's grace and gifts, how wonderful He is! I hope He visits again someday. And the pillar of cloud, and the pillar of fire (both attributes of the Holy Spirit, God's presence) move on. While those who refused to move with them, stay camped around an experience they once had with God - a long ago encounter, and their children and their children's children still camp around an experience they've never known, talking about what God did, never knowing what He can do. The "door to the gentiles" will not always be open. The Glory train will one day be full - it's doors will close for the last time and like the poor souls who beat upon the outside of Noah's ark, they'll cry Alas! "Therefore the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord, saith, thus - Wailing shall be in all streets, and they shall say in all the highways (all paths, all journeys, that do not lead to Him, all temptations, that kept men from following Him, all ways but the narrow way) Alas! Alas! Alas for the day! For the Day of the Lord is at hand; and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."

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