There Is A Fine Line At Times....And Then At Other Times It Is A Great Gulf

                I'm not much of an art critic but I was raised in a home where my mother was an accomplished painter in oils...so I was around art books a lot and over the many years and I developed a love for the work of Vincent van Gogh. I will....when I have the opportunity....just stand and stare at any one of a number of his wonderful paintings. Vincent was raised in the Reformed Faith....and he was at one time a minister. Did you know that. He preached the gospel....and then he didn't!
                 We are familiar with the phrase....'a fine line.' Sometimes it will be said that there is a fine line between genius and madness....and Vincent van Gogh is often described that way. I think that's a pretty good attempt at describing a man who painted with a genius....but lived a form of madness.
                 There is something eternally more important....and there is not a fine line in this....but we often believe there to be one. So on this day of Easter....where schools are out for Easter break....and families are gathered everywhere....and churches are full....and even Wall Street shut down for Good Friday....we need to fight the temptation and know with a certainty....a certainty of what God's Word tells us very clearly....that one is either born....again....born this time from above....with a new heart....and the Holy Spirit dwelling within....and a name written....in the Lamb's Book of Life....and angels having rejoiced when the person was born again....otherwise known to us as....SAVED....or one is not.
                 The church today has consciously chosen....not to push this issue. It not only no longer preaches God's Word on this....but it avoids it like the plague. So on eternal matters....it is not a fine line....one is either safe under the shelter of God's wings....or one is still headed to perdition. 
                 Those who have been born again....know it and rejoice in it every day....though there may be trials that may even bring one at times to doubt their salvation. If you do not know this rejoicing that makes everything else in life pale in comparison.....if you are even confused about this is all about....then you must without delay see where you are at! Have you indeed been born again....or it is just an assent to the truths of the Bible....an assent that does not save.