All Souls Day

Here's what occurs to me today....

  Today is All Souls Day, the day of the church year when we remember ALL those souls who have passed from this world into eternity.  Eternal life either with Christ in His heaven, or to the state of being separated from Him, in hell.  Now, that's not a cheerful thought is it?  No...quite sobering.

  Jesus had a very important conversation with the Pharisee, Nicodemus, wherein Nicodemus asked him how a man could be born again, and what Jesus meant by it.  You'll read it in the 3rd chapter of St. John's Gospel.  It's a wonderful conversation to read!  Especially reassuring for us believers is Jesus statement in the 16th verse:  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."   There, for Nicedemus, and for us, Jesus drew the line in the sand...the demarkation of choice to believe in Him and the coming sacrifice He would make through his death upon the cross, (or for us HAS made),  or to not accept it and believe and be in covenant relationship with him and therefore choose to spend eternity in the fires of hell, which will never cease and from which there is no respite.

  Oh, come on, Liz, surely it can't be that bad....one might say or think.  Well, I'm telling you what the Bible says, and it could not be clearer.  This is what Almighty God said (says), and He is a loving, merciful, gracious, and also just God who will sort us all out....believers from non believers....the goats from the sheep, the wheat from the tares...and in the end all souls shall be judged and sent to their place of choice that He has already established.

  If you do not know the Lord, or you want to learn more about salvation through Jesus the Christ, let me know, and I will be glad to answer questions and send you a Bible that you can read and we can discuss.  You see, there's God's TRUTH, and there's man's truth.  God's TRUTH reigns.  It is the wall against which all salvation is beaten out.  To decide against believing in Christ is to decide for eternal damnation.  To decide FOR believing in Christ is to choose eternal life with Him, never to be parted.  He wants us all with Him.  That's what He's planned for.  That's the provision He has made for you.

Will you take it?