It looks like a set from a movie. It’s amazing and really doesn’t even look like real life.
The wood is weathered just perfectly to where it looks almost like it's a painting.
The closer you get the more you see that you don’t want to go in. You know that if you go in, there’s a chance that you'll fall through the rotten floor to the cellar. That doesn’t seem to matter though when you’re right there looking at it. It’s so beautiful and feels as though it’s calling you to explore. It’s not very big and you know that the pleasure won’t last long because it’s empty inside.
There's no sign of life there, in fact there's a cow skeleton in the cellar that you can see through the rotten boards. I promise you, it didn't go there planning to die.
Maybe you think it's okay just to step inside, after all, it's not that big. But once you're in it you'll walk around because that's just how it works. Sooner or later, you'll fall through that floor even if all you thought you were going to do was explore. Once you're down there the only way out is for someone from outside of the cellar to help you.
If you’ve fallen through the floor. Don’t wait to call for help because the longer you wait the more used to it you become and you don’t notice that you have no food or water. You become okay with it when really, it's killing you.
Don’t go near that house no matter how small it may seem. Listen to me, if you’re already there, if you’ve already fallen in, I’m here to tell you that it’s not to late. Yell for help while you still have the breath to. A semicolon is placed in your life the very moment that you say: I can't get out alone; I need help.
If you've gotten out of the house. Break the Silence of your story because the possibilities are great that there are people out there that are in the very same house you were in. They have so much fear they can't call for help because they know that they should've never gone near the house in the first place. They're scared of judgment because you've covered up your tracks so well that they think they're the only one.
Maybe you came out of the house before you fell through. But every time you look at it you want to go back. Don't think that it being something not very big makes it okay to do.
Listen, it hasn't changed, it still looks beautiful from the outside but still has the power to kill you. To kill the family you have. To kill the church you pastor. To kill the impact that you're going to make.
This was not just a story about an old house... It's the story of many lives.
Maybe it's your story.
Maybe right now you're just looking. Stop looking and run as fast and as far away from it as you can.
Maybe you're in the house, walking around... Listen to me, no matter what your house is, Get. Out. Of. It. Now.
And maybe, you were just looking, you thought: it's not that big. But you stepped in just to look around... But now you're in the cellar and see no way out. You try to pull yourself out but the rocks from the foundation start falling every time you reach up and try to get out. Now you're scared that the whole building will fall in on you if you make one more move to get out of the cellar you've found yourself in. You think you're the only one so you won't yell for help....
ThreeLife Church has some courageous and brave people that are standing up saying, not in our lifetime will we leave you in the "cellar" to make ourselves look better. This series Break The Silence will change your life forever no matter where you're at in life. I challenge you to take the time to listen to these messages and reach out for help if you're in the house before you reach the seemingly hopeless cellar. If you're in the cellar, there is a way out even though you can't see above the falling rocks, there are people on the outside that if you call or even whisper for help they will come running and pull you out before it all falls in. Where there's life, there's hope. And if you've been there but covered up your tracks, I ask you to remember this: When you break the silence of your story it will tie you to someone in your world that wanted to quit before they heard what you had to say.
Break The Silence
