Life…

Not one of us has a choice in this world. Every person that is alive today did not have anything to do with their birth. Each of us that is born on this Earth has a certain number of days and hours that were appointed to us and we can’t live past that last hour and minute. What can you or I do about our life’s end? Is there anything that we can do? Some of us have been given twenty years to live. Some of us have been given nearly a century to live here. There is no special diet that will extend your life or the quality of it. Yes, many people do claim that diets with fewer calories or fewer carbohydrates, or less meat, or even a diet that excludes meat entirely will give you a more healthy life.

Diets will not give you a life of ease and great health without exercise. The problem in this world, especially in America, is that we are vain. We look at our faces and our bodies and think that if we looked better or were healthy then our lives would be much better off than we are now. In some lives that may be true but a healthy body with less fat on it doesn’t help you when this life is over. We only look at life from our point of view but God looks at us as His children who have an immortal soul. Your actual life doesn’t end when this body dies.

If you have given your heart and life to Jesus Christ and follow Him as your Lord and Savior, your life will go on into eternity! There is another problem with our eternal soul though. Even if you don’t accept Jesus as your Savior, your soul still lives into eternity but you will live that life without God or any hope of seeing Him except at the judgment seat. It is at that point that many people who have been in church and were members of a church and possibly were baptized will find that they never actually gave their heart and their life to Jesus. They just went through the motions.

For born-again believers, the judgment seat of their salvation doesn’t exist. Christians will be judged by what they did while they were alive as Christians. Their works will testify about their quality of salvation. So, you have a choice and you have always had this choice. Do you accept Jesus as your Savior or do you decide that you will wait a while before making that decision? The problem with waiting is that you don’t know how many more hours or minutes or even days you actually have to wait! God knows exactly how much longer each of us has but putting off an eternal decision is really not worth it. “It is appointed to each man once to die and then the judgment“; that is from God’s Word. Will your judgment be of your sins and thoughts or of the works that you actually did for God’s Kingdom?