Today is January 2, 2024. I’m staring on my new year’s resolutions like most people. Some of my resolutions never change, like walking and exercising for my physical health and daily prayer and Bible reading for my spiritual health and well-being. If you’re a believer then God is the anchor of your soul. You are at peace with God and the peace of God abides in you. Nobody can live a truly happy and successful life without God in their life. Beginning your day with prayer and Bible reading is how the believer stays in fellowship with God. It’s how we communicate with God. If you’re not a believer who talks with God regularly you’ll drift aimlessly through your life and when you’re old you’ll wonder where the time went. When the nonbeliever approaches the end of their life they think they’ll be able to handle the prospect of death on their own but they are sadly mistaken. Nobody is ready for their death if they don’t have Jesus in their heart. I’ve read plenty of accounts of atheists and other nonbelievers who talked a good game when death is far away but on their deathbed they all ended up experiencing the same terror about their impending death; because they don’t know what comes next. Will they cease to exist or will they go to heaven or hell? At the end of their life it’ll cross the nonbeliever’s mind that they should have found out the answers to all these questions earlier. Why did I wait so long? What should I have done differently? Why didn’t I read the Bible when I had the chance?
Hebrews 9:27 – And it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
Romans 14:12 – So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
I’ll give you the answers to life’s important questions right now and a reference so you can verify them yourself. It’s not that I’m so smart; I just know where to look for the answers. There is only one God, one Lord, and his name is Jehovah. All the other religions of the world are fakes sponsored by Satan to lead man away from the truth of God. All the other gods put forth by Satan are false gods. Satan will one day be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone for all eternity and he wants to take as many people as he can with him to the pit. Don’t be one of them! God loves all his creatures and he wants us in heaven with him. Satan has put blinders over the eyes of the nonbeliever so they cannot see the truth of God and the path to salvation unto eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. God made man with his own hands and at our conception God gives every man an eternal spirit, a piece of God himself, so that we might live forever. The physical body will die but the eternal spirit man remains forever. Heaven and hell are both real places and God made them both. At death the souls of men will immediately go to either heaven or hell. There is no third option. Heaven is where God lives and hell is where Satan is located. Those who accept Jesus, the son of God, as their personal Lord and Savior are saved unto eternal life in heaven where they’ll receive honor and glory from God. The sins of believers have been forgiven by God because of their faith in Christ Jesus, who died on the cross at Calvary so that their sins might be forgiven by a merciful God.
John 3:16 – (Jesus speaking) – For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Romans 10:9 – That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Death holds no fear for the believer because they know they’ll go to heaven one day. Those nonbelievers who DO NOT believe in Jesus Christ are rejecting God’s saving grace and their sins before Almighty God are not forgiven and their sins still abide on them and they will be judged on the last day when they stand before Jesus Christ at the Great White throne judgment. All nonbelievers who die without God’s forgiveness of their sins will immediately go to hell for all eternity where they’ll be in continual pain and agony forever. A trillion billion years is only one day in eternity. Just imagine bobbing up and down like a cork in the lake of fire and brimstone, in pain and torment 24/7, screaming your head off with no one to hear you or help you. That’s such a terrible fate I shudder when I think about it. It doesn’t have to end that way. You can stop it from happening to you if give your life to Jesus Christ! Google “sinner’s prayer” and then get on your knees before God and say that prayer back to God in faith; and you will be saved. You have God’s promise of salvation and God cannot lie.
Matthew 7:13-14 – (Jesus speaking) – Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Romans 3:23 – For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Some people want the best of both worlds. They like sinning so much they tell themselves they’ll wait until the end of their life and then accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior right before they die. That way they can sin all they want in this life and still go to heaven. One of the problems with that thinking is a person could die unexpectedly and without any warning (i.e., stroke, heart attack, accident, etc.) leaving no chance to be saved. Why would anyone want to take that risk? The holy Scriptures warn us that no man knows what tomorrow brings; only God. Once the heart stops beating man’s testing time on earth is over and his fate is sealed forever. Before then man must choose to serve either God or Satan and failure to choose is the same as choosing Satan. You see, I’ve been studying God’s word, our Holy Bible, for twenty years and all the answers of life are in the book written by God through his prophets as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. If you don’t believe what I’m saying go read the Bible for yourself because the truth of God is self-evident. The wisdom of God is obvious to anyone who reads the Bible. For 2000 years no errors have been found in the Bible although many have tried. If you read the Bible from cover to cover there’s probably a 99% chance that at some point it’ll dawn on you that you’re holding the word of Almighty God in your hand. I remember when it happened to me and I was stunned. It’s something you’ll never forget when it happens to you. Go meet your God while there is still time. God knows you personally and he’s waiting patiently to speak to you.
Matthew 10:38 – (Jesus speaking) – And he who does not take up his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 6:19-20 – (Jesus speaking) – Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.