IT'S OUR CHOICE

I have a "tweet" program that causes the tweets of everyone I'm following to pop up on the right side of my computer screen whenever one of them tweets a new tweet. Is that the way to say that? Doesn't sound quite right, but I don't know how else to say it. So, whenever Max Lucado tweets a new tweet, I see it. This morning this tweet popped up. "We can't choose whether or not we are born with a big nose or blue eyes or a lot of hair … but we can choose where we spend eternity. Max Lucado." As soon as I saw it, I thought about Spiritual Sundays and the fact that I didn't know what I was going to share this time. Thanks, Max, for giving me this idea. I had never thought about it exactly this way. I love the way Max Lucado has a unique way of saying things.

So, after I read this quote, I thought about the fact that we can choose where we spend eternity. Then the thought occurred to me that not many people give that reality much, if any, thought. I think most people just "stumble" through this life and if asked whether they think they will go to heaven when they die, they usually say, "I hope so." It is quite amazing how we prepare for everything we do in this life but too often make no preparation for the next life at all. The thought came to my mind of all the preparation I made before I went on the cruise last week. What if I had just said I wanted to go on the cruise, but did not sign up, did not pay the price, did not make sure airline and hotel reservations were made, and did not even pack my suitcase. Could I have gone on that cruise? If someone had asked me if I was going, would I have said, "I hope so." Now that cruise was a lot of fun, but compared to where I will spend eternity? Well - you get the idea.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father but by me." John 14:6. Jesus died that we might have life. It is a free gift. There is nothing we can do to earn it, but we must accept it. Since Jesus is the only way to the father, doesn't it follow, that Jesus is the only way to heaven? No one can get there by just "being good." There is no way we can be that good. Thankfully we have the Bible as a guide to tell us how to be sure that we will spend eternity in heaven. We need to be sure that we choose to go there and not just "hope" that it will happen.

I missed visiting everyone who linked to Spiritual Sundays last weekend because I was on the Girl's Get-A-Way cruise. I wrote about it on my other blog so if you are interested, you can go there and check it out. http://char72.wordpress.com/ 

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