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This is Thelma Rousseau Little, my grandmother. We called her Mernie. This evening, after 108 years of living life to its fullest, God called her home.
Because she lived so long, she used to joke that her family, all of whom she outlived by many, many years probably thought she didn't make it to heaven. Well, she is there now and oh, what rejoicing there must be going on up there.
Mernie had lots of good works - too many to mention them all. She sat with friends and family alike during their final days. She helped whoever needed help. She welcomed everyone as though they had always been her own family. She suffered. She overcame.
What she didn't do was complain about the hand that she was dealt ( well she probably did but I never heard it). She was grace personified.
Tonight, as great as Mernie was, she is not in heaven because she died. She is not in heaven because of her good works. No, she is there because she accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. Because Jesus did for Mernie what she could not do for herself-pay for her sins by His death on the cross. He gave Mernie the same offer he gives each of us, to accept His free gift of grace that WHOSOEVER believes in Him shall not parish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus overcame death by rising from the grave on the 3rd day. He provides a way for us to overcome our earthly death, just as Mernie has tonight. None of us are beyond that "whosoever". None of us are so bad that He want accept us if, we accept Him. None of us are so good that we get accepted without Him.
If you didn't meet Mernie but want to know her, read her book and ask someone in her family. If you don't know Jesus, read His book (start with John) and ask someone in His family.
This is Thelma Rousseau Little, my grandmother. We called her Mernie. This evening, after 108 years of living life to its fullest, God called her home.
Because she lived so long, she used to joke that her family, all of whom she outlived by many, many years probably thought she didn't make it to heaven. Well, she is there now and oh, what rejoicing there must be going on up there.
Mernie had lots of good works - too many to mention them all. She sat with friends and family alike during their final days. She helped whoever needed help. She welcomed everyone as though they had always been her own family. She suffered. She overcame.
What she didn't do was complain about the hand that she was dealt ( well she probably did but I never heard it). She was grace personified.
Tonight, as great as Mernie was, she is not in heaven because she died. She is not in heaven because of her good works. No, she is there because she accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. Because Jesus did for Mernie what she could not do for herself-pay for her sins by His death on the cross. He gave Mernie the same offer he gives each of us, to accept His free gift of grace that WHOSOEVER believes in Him shall not parish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus overcame death by rising from the grave on the 3rd day. He provides a way for us to overcome our earthly death, just as Mernie has tonight. None of us are beyond that "whosoever". None of us are so bad that He want accept us if, we accept Him. None of us are so good that we get accepted without Him.
If you didn't meet Mernie but want to know her, read her book and ask someone in her family. If you don't know Jesus, read His book (start with John) and ask someone in His family.
