Do You Believe Others For Your Salvation?

 

Well I have been up  to try to get the word out about Yeshua, while trying still to test things on blogspot.com that I wrote about for others to help if led.  I was then reminded of a story, I had jotted that down in notes, but had blown it away with the battles that seem to be going on.  I did not receive my usual words I get for this as far as searching scripture for words.  So this is more just a story  of something that happened I will never forget.

I will try to keep this short, but we have a friend who had someone pass away in his family.  He was an employee of company, that had told him he would not get paid if he took the time off to go to the funeral.  Having a distance to even travel for this.  He did choose to go, however once he got back he wanted to pursue getting paid.  He went through all the known company channels such as Human Resources, etc.  Weeks went by with  no answers except for no he wouldn't get paid. 

He then went to the manuals himself and started reading company manuals, looking for a way to get paid.  He did not trust what he had been told, and wanted to search things himself.  Well he came over bragging that after all his time, he finally found a way to be paid.

I believe it was another time he was over that we were somehow on the topic of religion.  I had asked him what he believed.  Actually he didn't mention the Lord as I recall, but he said he had heard a guy on some teaching and he just believed that.  Like it sounded right to him.

Well the memory of his bragging came to me on his struggle to get paid.  So I said to him, you mean you will go to the extreme of searching a manual to get paid for just 3 days, but you will just trust what someone else tells you about your salvation?  I believe then is when he said it sounded right to him.  Three days compared to eternity, it just did not compute to me, yet there are probably most the world that does the same thing.

How many manuals or reading of rules do you have on things?  What does that knowledge do for you after death?  We are given just 5 books we need to follow and people don't know the rules for salvation.