There is a time to get serious!

James 4:14 “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”  

I have always loved music…almost every genre. When I was in my teens, I was a big fan of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. God is so kind, a dear brother that attended my Bible Study was a promoter and he invited me to be his guest at the Crosby, Stills, Nash concert in Manila in 2015! Man, was that a fun night and the icing on the cake was he took me backstage after!
 
In January of 2023, David Crosby died. He had been sick for some time, and when asked what he thought about heaven on Twitter, the day before he died, his answer was: “I heard the place was overrated…cloudy.”

I am sure he meant it in a joking way, however, I have found that a fallback people have for avoiding hard Truths is to make light of them.
 
I am known for having a sense of humor, and I love to laugh, yet, understanding and planning for your own soul is nothing to scoff at or take lightly. God is the Creator that made us eternal, sharing and offering us His eternal life, through the sacrifice of His Son. This is also why I do not enjoy jokes concerning Hell. For me, it is a real destination and there is nothing funny about it.
 
The BIG “What If” needs to enter here. Let’s start with me: “What if” all this stuff about the Scriptures and a dude named Jesus is baloney? One millisecond after my spirit leaves this temporal shell, I will either, not know…because I am gone and just a worm feast until nothing, but dust is left. Or I will appear before what or whoever started all this and regret settling for a lie. I will also have a great desire to find the dude named Jesus and beat the stuffing out of him because he claimed to be it! The only way, the only truth, and the only life, and he wasn’t.

Which means - I invested my life in telling people a lie and was guilty of leading them astray, living in a climate (HOT) I was allergic to, traffic that could make Gandhi lose it, and having to endure the profiteers down in immigration. The people were fantastic, and I made some great friends and learned a lot from them… but I could have done that as a house painter living in Hawaii!
 
However – What if the Scripture is true? No matter how great your “here and now” has been, compared to eternity, it is a “belch”, a “blink” of the eye, a vapor that has now evaporated! Then you will take whatever your claim to fame was, whatever rewards you earned to a destination that is separated from Life and the Life Giver…Forever! There is no early release, no parole, because the Pardon was already accomplished, offered, and left to your decision.
 
The So What: Doesn’t the weight of an eternal decision deserve a time of consideration in your “here and now”? God privileged you, and you alone, with that choice! How is the Gospel’s offer of salvation different from every other offer in the world? If you don’t know I would be glad to help. Choose a Relationship, not a religion.