The next story tells what happens if you deny 
God’s calling. (The excerpt is from John
Bunyan's book. He lived in the 1600s.)







"Why was I given a chance? Why was I equipped with an immortal soul? Why did I care so little about it? Oh, how my own negligence gives me a fatal wound, and yet I know that I can not and am not allowed to die. But to live a mortal life is worse than ten thousand deaths, and yet once I could have received help, but I refused to accept it! Oh, this is the nagging worm that never dies. Once I could have been happy; once salvation was offered to me, but I refused it. If it had happened only once, and I would have resisted it, it would have been unforgivable foolishness, but it was offered a thousand times, and just as often (so wretched I was) I resisted it. Damned sin, which lures mankind into eternal destruction by its deceitful pleasure! God often called me, but as often I resisted it. He reached out His hand, but I didn't care. Oh how often did I go against His commands, how often I resisted His reprimands! But now the situation has changed, for now He follows my misery and mocks the ruin which has come to me. He could have helped me then, but I didn't want it. Therefore this constant pain is only the reward for my owns actions, which I have been doomed to suffer." (Translated from the Finnish version of "Näkyjä taivasta ja helvetistä", page 67)