You and Eternity
“Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Mark 8:34-37.
I as a Christian believe people are eternal beings. That which we call the soul the part of us that is our very being lives on beyond death. The thing is I believe the soul after death has only one of two places to go. Heaven or Hell.
The choice as to where we will spend eternity is taken in this life. We can either believe in the Lord Jesus Christ or we can reject him. Jesus said,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6.
Jesus made it clear what our choices are when he said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”.
John 3:16-18.
Following Jesus is an act of faith. The writer of Hebrews stating,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
Hebrews 11:6.
Who do you think Jesus is?
Please think about it.
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