Hello,
I thought I would take a moment and share an honest moment with you. I doubt. I find it hard to believe there are people who don't. Even atheists, I believe there are times they doubt their atheism.
What do I doubt? That I have found the one true Way. No, I don't doubt in a God, or that Jesus died on the Cross. Only very seldom do I doubt that. But more often, it is my own sin in that I doubt. Lots of religions out there, almost everyone thinks they have the only Way. Why are we right and everyone else is wrong? If there truly is only one Way, then statistically speaking most of us are wrong. How do I KNOW I have gotten on God's good side? How do I KNOW my sins have been washed, that I am redeemed, that I am going to Heaven? Something as huge as eternity, that is something you had better be absolutely SURE about. You wouldn't board an airplane that had a 1% chance of crashing. Yet with death, we don't have a choice. Like it or not, that is one plane you are going to board.
I saw a nice, reassuring message at church this morning. It was a (fiction) story of a dad, a human dad, who had to choose between his son's life, or the lives of a train full of people. He chose the people on the train to live. Fast-forward a few years, this grieving dad got to see some of the passengers, living their lives, still alive. What I realized was this: if I was in that dad's shoes, those people's lives would have meant everything to me--as much as my own son's life. Because if they were not alive and well, then my son died in vain. Now I have lost both my son--by my own doing--AND the very reason why I lost him in the first place.
If you have accepted the Father's gift of salvation in Jesus Christ His Son, you ARE GOING to Heaven. There is no way He is going to allow anything BUT that to happen. If you do not live eternally, then the sacrifice God made, of His own Son, was made in vain. He is King of the universe. Nothing is beyond His control. It is just as important to Him that you make it there as it is Jesus himself is there.
It's done. Go, and do what you can so that Jesus did not die in vain for anyone else. God bless.
I thought I would take a moment and share an honest moment with you. I doubt. I find it hard to believe there are people who don't. Even atheists, I believe there are times they doubt their atheism.
What do I doubt? That I have found the one true Way. No, I don't doubt in a God, or that Jesus died on the Cross. Only very seldom do I doubt that. But more often, it is my own sin in that I doubt. Lots of religions out there, almost everyone thinks they have the only Way. Why are we right and everyone else is wrong? If there truly is only one Way, then statistically speaking most of us are wrong. How do I KNOW I have gotten on God's good side? How do I KNOW my sins have been washed, that I am redeemed, that I am going to Heaven? Something as huge as eternity, that is something you had better be absolutely SURE about. You wouldn't board an airplane that had a 1% chance of crashing. Yet with death, we don't have a choice. Like it or not, that is one plane you are going to board.
I saw a nice, reassuring message at church this morning. It was a (fiction) story of a dad, a human dad, who had to choose between his son's life, or the lives of a train full of people. He chose the people on the train to live. Fast-forward a few years, this grieving dad got to see some of the passengers, living their lives, still alive. What I realized was this: if I was in that dad's shoes, those people's lives would have meant everything to me--as much as my own son's life. Because if they were not alive and well, then my son died in vain. Now I have lost both my son--by my own doing--AND the very reason why I lost him in the first place.
If you have accepted the Father's gift of salvation in Jesus Christ His Son, you ARE GOING to Heaven. There is no way He is going to allow anything BUT that to happen. If you do not live eternally, then the sacrifice God made, of His own Son, was made in vain. He is King of the universe. Nothing is beyond His control. It is just as important to Him that you make it there as it is Jesus himself is there.
It's done. Go, and do what you can so that Jesus did not die in vain for anyone else. God bless.
