Where Are You Going?
Good News –March 2018 – Grace & Truth Magazine
Where Are You Going?
Our time on earth is short! Each closing year, each setting sun, each tick of the clock indicates our days here are shortening – swiftly, silently and surely carrying us on to eternity. The moment will soon arrive which will close our lives on earth and begin either a song in heaven or a wail in hell. Our eternal destiny will then forever be sealed. God’s Word says, “You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (Jas. 4:14 NKJV ).
Today your hands are busy at work; your eyes are seeing; your mind is thinking; you are planning for the future. Tomorrow all is still; you have gone to eternity. The Bible says, “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27).
Ask yourself honestly, “Am I prepared for eternity?” Give your conscience time to answer, and be sure not to stifle its voice. Let the heaven and the hell of the future stand before you in all their reality. One or the other will be your final home, and today is the time to make your choice.
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mk. 8:36-37). For what are you living? Where are you going? Surely you do not want to meet God with your soul unsaved – and perish.
Do you think a holy God will admit you to heaven in your sins? Impossible! God says, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (Jn. 3:3).
Have you been born again? Have you received Jesus Christ as your Savior? Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn. 14:6).
God certainly does not want you to die in your sins and be lost forever, for the Bible says, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet. 3:9). “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live” (Ezek. 33:11).
Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, endured for you God’s wrath against sin. He, the Just One, suffered for you, the unjust, that He might bring you to God (1 Pet. 3:18). Today He offers to you a complete pardon and eternal life. Receive Him now just as you are – a condemned sinner – and be saved for eternity. Tell Him – He can hear you wherever you are – how much you need and want His complete forgiveness, and that you want Him to take control of your life. We can tell you more.
This article is available as a gospel tract from Grace & Truth.