It's hard to watch elderly loved ones grow old....most of you know exactly what I mean....as they can hardly do anything on their own other than put a fork or a sippy cup straw up to their mouth.....and when they walk....with a walker.....it is one inch at a time....but there is a great learning experience.....in that we are all headed there....if we live that long that is. We enter this world needing care....and we usually leave it needing care.
And then there is the mind. In our case the father....he just related how he almost fell yesterday coming down the steps at the car wash.....well....I was there....and it was the bathroom....and there were no steps. He calls the bathroom the car wash at times....possibly because that's what his baths remind him of....I presume anyway.
Every day of our lives is one day closer to living joyously forever in the presence of our majestic and loving Lord Jesus Christ....but there is more that we should know....every day without Christ the heart gets harder. It is quite natural for man to think that God.....if there really is a god....will let us into his kingdom....if there really is a kingdom. We look at our life and think that we aren't that bad.....certainly not bad enough to go to a hell....if there really is a hell....which there probably isn't.
Personally....I use only one description for existence after death without Christ...."weeping and gnashing of teeth." So to those who claim at least not to care what is ahead....defiant....and confident that they can handle it....common sense alone should convince anyone....that this is not what anyone would want....even the most ardent believer in their own strength and fortitude.
Today is the day friends....not tomorrow....for you do not know if there will even be a tomorrow. One last thing to those who really do assent to belief in God....and Jesus.....and even in what Jesus accomplished on that cursed tree on Calvary....but know of no glory at all....and have never wept at the mercy extended....nor been ravished just thinking about Jesus....nor read His Word to us with absolute joy and thanksgiving as what it does to our mind and our heart....should this your description of God be true....he would not be glorious....existence in the hereafter would be exactly what it is here. In summary....there would be no real hope at all....and this is what you have placed your bet upon....but if you are wrong....which you would be....having never been born from above....regenerated....adopted....given eyes to see and ears to hear....you have only "weeping and gnashing of teeth" ahead.
If you do not at some time humble yourself....and trust only in what God tells us....instead of....like a child....with no knowledge of anything other than what you want....purport to tell Almighty God what is what....you will at that very moment when this life passes....wish that you could go back long enough only to say as did the one thief on the cross....for this short life is but a vapor....and it is as if you are on that cross right now...."Jesus....(Jeshua would be the name he used)....remember me when you come into your kingdom"....of which Jesus responded....acknowledging what could only be in that situation true repentance and true belief...."Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise."
