God sees a little "bluish-green" planet (3rd from
the sun) 
zipping around our
little star.
1,2,3 .... 30,40,50,60,70,80 laps ... AND That's OUR
LIFE!
So ... 80 laps around the SUN (if we're lucky)... and
we're out of here!
Doesn't quite seem so long anymore
does it?
So how many laps have you already had? Which one of us
can honestly say that we can even count on 80 laps? I'm just a little over the
half-way mark myself and often I feel fortunate to have been allowed to get this
far! How about you? Can you really afford to gamble against God's time-table for
your life ... or do you presume to hold the envelope with the secret date
of your last day on earth in your own hands (knowing what is inside) and that
some day you will let God in on your secret ?
Folks, let's face facts, it's the other way around. God gets to decide our starting
point and our end point anyway, so why would we not just simply trust God with
the other part - that part that comes in between ... namely our life ?
That is exactly what God wants us to do!
Many of us have loved ones that we know were
believers, people who trusted their lives into God's care at some point in their
life and then later died in that state of faith. These loved ones are in Heaven
with God and all of the other Heavenly Hosts and they are acutely aware
that we (their loved ones) can go to only one of 2 possible destinations
and that this choice is ours to make, not theirs! I have no doubt they are rooting
for us to be re-joined with them in heaven one day - for all of eternity (and
that's so very much longer than 80 laps around the sun). I know of some of my
relatives and friends who did what is required to go to Heaven and I dearly would
want to join them one day and hang out with them again! I also knew some
who rejected God all their lives and who have (by their own choosing) gone to
the other place. YIKES! That's a terrible thought. That alternative is just too
scary, and quite frankly, "There - but for the grace of God - go you, I ...
and many others". Folks, really, take this warning seriously ... please.
I have a simple prayer for you ...
similar to a prayer that some caring people once prayed for me. I pray that every
time you hear an alarm go off from now on - you will think about these things,
and that when you are ready, you will ask God to help you make the right decision.
God knows that our life, whether filled with suffering and pain
or happiness and luxury, occupies just an instant in the Cosmos. Time is relative.
For us mortals 80 years seems quite long, to a mosquito it seems an eternity,
but to God 80 years constitutes an almost instant 'test'. From God's frame of
reference it is over almost instantaneously, but from our reference point it seems
to drag on for quite a while. In the Cosmos everything is measured in many millions
and billions of years. 80 years is merely a Cosmic instant. To us a Mosquito's
life seems very brief, but to that mosquito, it is a perfectly normal and long
lifespan - though many of us would prefer that the Mosquito's life be even shorter!
You see God created time itself upon creating the Cosmos ... at
that instant time started. It has a meaning to us finite beings, but has no meaning
to God who existed before time itself. God knows when our life (test) starts and
that never mind what we have to endure, it is over in an instant and then we are
judged and rewarded or punished - and assigned one of only 2 homes for all of
eternity. It's strange how we understand that concept when we go to university/college
to obtain a degree in a fixed time, but somehow lose sight of that point in our
lives down here in God's university, the earth. Do you want to graduate
with honors or fail miserably? My prayer for you is that you will get the class
medal! If you want to party hardy, not get serious, live only for your own pleasures
and set your own timetable, standards and rules - then you will fail. If you want
to succeed then now is the time to get serious folks - exam time is closer
than we think !
there
really are only two paths to travel down for you and us: