A plea of 30 years

Is there any limit to how long a story of God might inspire?  Is there ever a life span on the works of the Lord?  This past Saturday I witnessed a story reaching ahead almost 3 decades.  It started around 1985 with one lady asking God to take her to heaven.  Life was miserable at the time, and she pleaded.  She remembers God responding, “I cannot use you for the people of this earth when you’re dead.”  And that reply rejuvenated her.  Now fast-forward almost 30 yrs.  In 2014 there’s a 21-year-old who is very sick with Crohn’s disease.  He’s frail.  He’s hardly more than skin and bones, and he tells his aunt he wants the Lord to take him to heaven.  The lady from the ’80s tells her story to the young man’s aunt, and the aunt conveys the story to her nephew.  The young man listens closely, and he too is rejuvenated.  The Lord knew both the lady and the young man could not bear the thought of leaving this earth too soon, and how perfectly He fashioned His words to inspire.  Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”  On Saturday we had a whole roomful of inspired souls.  And again we remember how the light the Lord shines into any one experience is for our sake and yet others as well.