A Purpose Intervention

In 1843 Charles Dickens penned a moving story about a man who had become deep- ly hardened by hurt, selfish choices, and greed. In A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is a hard man, enslaved by the things of this world, and now the darkness of his soul is quickly propelling him towards a bitter, lonely death. On Christmas Eve he is given a chance to see his life from heaven’s eyes. He is visited by three spirits and divinely shown his past, his present, and the reality of his future if his heart remains unchanged. He is given a magnificent intervention.
The ghost of Ebenezer’s late business partner, Jacob Marley, is the first to show up and announce the spirits’ visitations. Trembling Scrooge says, “You were always a good friend, Jacob, and a good business man.” To which, Marley shrieks, “Mankind was my business!” But in life when Marley had a chance to do good – he didn’t. For Jacob Marley, whose spirit is doomed to roam the earth in chains, it is now too late. In pain, Jacob declares: “But it’s not too late for you, Ebenezer.” Scrooge is about to see what his purpose has been all along. What will he do with such an intervention?