Today I accidentally knocked off a container of sewing pins. There could have been perhaps 200 all tolled. They fell all over the floor of my sewing room, like scattered Israel went throughout all nationsof the earth, though some stayed in groups. My husband had made me a 2-foot long dowel attached to a fairly strong magnet, so I reached for it and thought, 'no problem, a few passes should take care of the spilled pins.
That was very true. It pulled up strays and bunches alike, with one exception. Some pins must have made out of a metal that wasn't steel--probably aluminum. I didn't want to keep those pins. They just laid there on the floor, even though the magnet already had thirty or so pins sticking to it. I plucked off the steel pins and placed them back in their container.
This made me think.......What if righteous people had magnetic properties? The Lord could pass his big magnet over a group of people and immediately "lift up" the ones he wanted to gather. He had said, "my sheep know my voice." My steel pins knew their magnet too. The unrighteous people would be left behind like my unmagnetized pins still on the floor.
As I swept up the rebellious pins along with bits of thread and cast off clippings, I ran the magnet over the pile one more time. I brought up three strays that had been left behind, but there were still about twenty pins that refused to be caught up. Then my aluminum pins were in a pile to be swept into the trash. It was as easy as bundling tares to be burned. It could be just as easy for the Lord to separate his people at the time of his Second Coming! Will you know the Lord's voice when he calls?
