The four tips of my fingers on my left hand are calloused and hardened from playing guitar for so many years. In the beginning, pressing those tender fingertips against the steel strings onto a hard fingerboard was very painful until they calloused and hardened and now I could press them against a razor blade until they bled and I would barely feel it. Our hearts are no different. I heard it said once from a pastor that it usually takes a catastrophic event to open most peoples hearts once they reach a certain age. But with God all things are possible. This is a very good point. I would say that anyone who enters the Tribation will have rejected the free gift of salvation multiple, multiple times. They, by their own choice, will enter the most awful period of humanity in Earth's history. So, while I will leave the button pushing to God the Father, I can also appreciate the desire to push it, as well. :good: Yes, all things are possible. It's just the conversation I will no longer have with my Aunt or sister. I put them in the Lord's hands for the outcome. I do wonder what our loved one's will say to us in Heaven, if they make it through the Tribulation. Not as an I told you so - none of that in Heaven - but just a desire to know what their thought might be when they realize what they never believed, was true. Kolleen, this is true. I used to think that as people got older, they would realize that their time left on earth was short and they would accept Jesus as their savior. Now, I know that their hearts get hardened. I have a friend who always thought religion was a take-it or leave-it option. She is very nice, a "good person." I have spoken to her about this several times, and once she replied, "Well, maybe when I get very, very old." Now she is 97, not healthy, and living in memory care far away. I had given her a Bible, but she doesn't know where it is. I phone her every week, but she has no interest in spiritual things and just wants happy talk. It's sad. Arthur, I agree that people in the U.S. and Canada have probably had many chances to accept Christ's gift of salvation. But, folks in other countries, I'm not so sure.
