eternity

There is the story of the sailor who set off on a journey using instruments to guide him to his destination, not realizing that with every calibration, it was off by one degree. Over the course of his time on the sea, he ended up in a very different location from his original destination.

“There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death,” Proverbs 14:12 tells us. The Bible is our compass and it calibrates us every day. In the Old Testatament, the Israelites rebeled against God and stopped believing in HIm, His promises and His commandments. They slowly indoctrinated themselves into the cultures and religions of those around them. One degree at a time, one sin at a time, until they were totally off course. Judges 17:6 tells us that “every man did what was right in his own eyes.” Doesn’t that sound like our culture, our society today? And yet, our loving God chose to redeem His people. He didn’t have to send Jesus to save us, but He did.

People today want to come to their own conclusions, share their own opinions, believe their own “truths” and have even stopped believing in the God of the Bible. “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness." Proverbs 30:12

If we really want to finish this race and have Jesus tell us, “my good and faithful servant” then we need to confess our sin, believe that Jesus is the Son of God and on the cross, He took our sin and shame and died for us so we wouldn’t have to. He was buried, rose again and has gone to prepare a place for us. Eternity is forever and I am so thankful that I will spend it with Jesus because heaven is my home. Where will you spend it?

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”

John 3: 16 -18 (from The Message)