
The concept of Heaven that most people have is that it is a place that
has everything they could ever want, everything they could ever dream of, a
place where all their lusts can be indulged in for all eternity. The fact
of the matter is that God has revealed to us in the Bible what Heaven is
like so it is not left to our wild (and selfish) imaginations.
If you could just get a brief glimpse of
Heaven you would most likely be horrified at what you would discover there.
How can that be, you may wonder? Well, for in just a brief moment in time
you would realize how wicked and vile and unfit you are for such a place of
absolute holiness and moral purity. You would cry out like the prophet
Isaiah:
"Woe is me! for I am undone; because I
am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." [Isaiah 6:5]
You would see how utterly unfit you are to spend eternity in the presence
of the most righteous and holy Being in the entire universe and in the
company of His servants whom you mocked or disregarded here on earth.
"They rest not day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come."
[Revelation 4:8]
You would instantly learn that the Lord of heaven is He whose
commandments you repeatedly and callously violated every day of your life.
You would know that the Lord Jesus - whose name you blashphemed every time
you used it as a curse word - was the one whose death on the cross meant
nothing to you, nothing that had any real effect on how you talked or how
you lived. You would meet this Jesus face to face and He would be your
enemy not your friend, since it would be too late for you to repent of your
sins and seek mercy from the one and only Savior. You would become
painfully aware of the fact that the Ruler of heaven and earth, the Supreme
law maker whose commandments our societies have used to maintain law and
order, is the Ruler who you ignored your whole life. You would have to come
to grips with the sobering fact that Heaven is what GOD wants it to be, NOT
what YOU want it to be. It is HE with whom you will have to deal with, and
not your ungodly friends.
"All things are naked and opened unto
the eyes of him with whom we have to do." [Hebrews 4:13]
While Hell may be equally horrifying for you, it is the only place you
are fit for if you die in your sins. It is the place you will go, unless
God grants you a complete pardon for all your sins and converts you into a
person who is fit for heaven, who desires the kind of holiness that makes
Heaven what it is. None of us will ever want to go to the REAL Heaven
unless we become saved by the grace of God and have our thinking and our
desires changed to match those of God.
"Except a man be born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God." [John 3:3]
Friend, if you don't agree with this view of Heaven, then your are in for
the shock of your life when you die because your kind of Heaven simply does
not exist. Heaven does not operate like a chameleon, changing itself to
meet the desires of each individual sinner who ever dies.
"I say unto you my friends, Be not
afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can
do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he
hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him."
[Luke 12:4-5]
TODAY IS THE DAY OF
SALVATION.
REPENT BEFORE ITS TOO
LATE.
THERE IS STILL TIME TO
SEEK THE LORD.
YOUR ETERNAL SOUL IS AT
STAKE!