Salvation Comes
Elizabeth had everything she was told she needed, clothes, food, a job that paid well, lots of friends, a beautiful home, and enough money to spend on whatever she could possibly want. Even though she had all that she could ever want she continued to be in despair. She could be at the most crowded party and feel completely alone. These feelings of sorrow and brokenness had continued to grow more and more strong as she continued to search for different ways of contentment. She had found nothing that seemed to ease the pain and loneliness.
One day while walking home from work Elizabeth noticed a man sitting on the sidewalk. He looked like any other beggar, dirty and unkempt, but he reminded her of someone she had been told about, but she couldn’t think whom. As she approached him, he called out to her as he did all those passing him. He said, “I have what can make you happy. It is your to take I give it to you freely. Consider it a gift. All you have to do is take it.” Thinking that this man could not possibly have in his possession anything that she didn’t already posses herself, Elizabeth walked past him acting as though he didn’t exist.
Elizabeth’s life continued to go into the depths of despair. Hoping that maybe she just needed sometime away from her everyday life she took a weekend off and went camping. She didn’t exactly enjoy camping, but she thought it might give her a chance to think through things and find a solution to her sorrow. She decided to camp out where she knew it would be easy to clear her head, because she had done so there many times before. It was a cliff overlooking the city, it was quiet there and not many people knew about it, so there was never anyone around.
When Elizabeth arrived at the cliff she immediately sat down on a rock at the very edge and began to sort through her problems. She sat there for hours just thinking. As it began to get dark she started to get up to go make some dinner for herself. As she did so her feet fell from beneath her and she slipped off the edge. She hung there, just dangling, the only thing keeping her from falling to her death was the rock that she had previously been sitting on, her hands now clung to it for dear life. She yelled out for help, but knew there was no one around to hear her.
Elizabeth hung onto the edge of the cliff for a while. She then heard someone's footsteps. She yelled out again for help. A man came to the edge of the cliff and peered down at her. It was the beggar from before. He stretched out his hand to her and said, “I have what can save you from this and your despair. All you have to put your trust in me and take my hand.” Knowing that is man was her only hope she reached out to him. He grabbed her and pulled her up. When she was safely on firm ground again the man said, “I have not only saved you from this chance of death, but I have given you an eternal life that you will spend with me.”
When Elizabeth heard this she at once fell to his feet for she finally realized whom he was. He was the Son of God here to save her. She had been told of him before, but had never believe what she had been told. She couldn’t believe that before on the street she had acted like he was just a beggar. He bent down to her and brought her back to her feet and embraced her. At this moment Elizabeth felt no more despair and no more sorrow for she had found happiness and joy or rather he had found her.
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