"Stand up if you want to go to heaven!" the preacher exhorted his congregation.

The worshipers rose as one, with exception of a man in the front pew.

"Are you telling me you do not want to go to heaven?" thundered the preacher.

"When I die, yes," the man responded. "But I thought you were getting up a load right now."

I figured out a long time ago that many people will say that they are ready to meet God and enter into Heaven, but they are in no hurry. I never will forget the time when I was pastor of a little mission church in Kentucky. It was approximately 6pm and we were beginning service. We were having services in an old building that was once a theater years before. In the back of the building, behind the room that we were using for worship there was two old furnaces that heated the building. The best that we could figure out, one of the furnaces must have build up some rust and caused a delay in the gas coming into contact with the pilot light. Which aloud gas to build up before it ignited, which made for a very loud boom. It did not present any harm but did sound like a truck ran into the building. Well you can imagine the look on everyone's faces. At this time I told everyone to hold tight and we would check it out. So one of my men that happened to be a furnace man and I went to the back of the building to see what had happened. Of course when I entered the room nothing looked to be wrong, but it didn’t take but just a moment and boom, it did it again. I immediately saw what it was and turned to tell the congregation that everything was OK. To my amazement they looked like a stampede of cattle heading out the door. They left the Ole preacher and the gasman to fend for themselves, they all was gone including my wife. There was even one man that had left his pregnant wife in the bathroom all alone. Well needless to say, I rounded them back into the building assuring them that everything was ok. Of course we had a good laugh over this one. I reminded them of all the times that they would tell of how they were ready to meet the Lord and I said, "I have figured something out today folks, you might be ready to meet the Lord, but you are in no hurry."