YOU ARE BEING CALLED

By Kenneth Reams

The reason why I’m writing this letter is because I’m hoping to reach or change someone’s life, and their way of thinking.  Praying that they will turn and start living for the Lord, while He is calling them before something very bad happens in their life.  So please listen to me, not just the young, but also the old.

My name is Kenneth Reams, I just turned 19 years old only three days ago.  I’m a young black male about five feet five and I have great art skills and can do many things others can’t, and I have many things to be thankful for.  One is that I’m still alive, and I thank God for that.

I’ve told you a few things about me, now let me ask you a very, very important question, and be very honest.  Are you living for the Lord?

The reason why I’m asking you this question is because I had a chance to do these things, but I turned to the streets instead, and that’s why I’m here.  You may say where, but don’t rush.  I’m getting to that.  I’m taking my time to write this letter because the Lord sent someone to me and asked me if I would do it.  So, I’m hoping this letter reaches someone.  If not you, maybe the person next to you, or someone behind you.

Listen, you have a chance to do what’s right, to live a wonderful life, to go places and see things.  And most of all you have a chance to be something and somebody in life.  Listen, a chance is all some people would love to have again.  The Lord God is calling you.  You have a chance to go to Him.  So please use that chance while He’s calling.

I didn’t use my chance the wise way when He was calling for me.  He called me many times.  Once I went to see what He wanted and He told me I needed to change my life, so I did.  I joined a church, got baptized, and was even on the usher board.  At that point my life was wonderful.  I would say it was the best years of my life since I’ve been living.  But I stopped going to church and started back breaking the law, in other words, SINNING.  Dealing dope, stealing, shooting at people, and robbing people.  When I started doing these things I let God go, which was the biggest mistake in my life.  And many times I wish I could go back, but we all know we can’t go back into time.  But like I said, everyone gets a chance.  I misused mine and look what happened to my life.

On December 15, 1993 I was sentenced to the Arkansas Department of Correction, to die by lethal injection, for the shooting death of a Pine Bluff, Arkansas man during a robbery attempt at an automatic teller machine.  And it’s hard for me to deal with it.  At the time I was only 18 years old and I’ve only been here nine days, and I’m the youngest inmate on death row, waiting to die.

Every day that I wake up, I often find myself asking the Lord God why me Lord, why me Lord.  But I have no one to blame but myself, because He called me but I didn’t answer.  I turned around and now look where I’m at, on death row.  I never thought that a thing like this would happen to me, but it was because I turned my back on the Lord.  Only if I would have stayed with the Lord, I wouldn’t be here.  How do I know this?  Because the Lord says if I’m leading you, you don’t need to know where your going.

That’s why I’m writing this, because the Lord is calling you also.  Because He sees where you are headed, that’s why I’m asking you to please don’t pass up your chance.  Some people would love to have the chance you have.  Please turn to the Lord and not from Him.  If you are out there selling dope, stealing, smoking dope, robbing or doing wrongs, take it from me and stop.  Please stop!  Because there is only one future in it, and that’s death.  But there’s only one way out and that’s to go the Lord.  He has sent me to tell you these things.  Salvation is Free, but only to those who ask for it.  Salvation is not a matter of trying, but trusting.  Jesus is the only way out.  No one is too bad to be forgiven.  Please listen to my last words, if you don’t listen to anything else I say.  God cares more about the size of your heart than the size of your bank roll.  He is calling you now!

P.S.  Honest means never having to look over your shoulders.

Kenneth is still on death row.  His address is Kenneth Reams, SK 927, P.O. Box 400, Grady, AR  71644.