Know
That We Are Saved
God is all powerful, He
is all knowing, He is spiritually present everywhere, but most important of
all, He dearly loves us. Our Heavenly Father loves us with an awesome love, an undeserved
love, desiring all to become part of His family, part of His eternal
kingdom. We must realize that all the
worldly physical blessings we ask for cannot even begin to compare with all the
spiritual blessing our God wants to give us, the greatest being eternal life in
Heaven. Heaven where we live in peace with our Savior, where
pain and suffering are no more. Where we live in harmony and love with
all those in Christ eternally. Eternal is forever, more than a hundred years,
more than a million years, greater than even a trillion years, it is infinite.
The best way to explain the concept of Heaven is through the contempt of
nonbelievers. Early in the 1900’s some elite minds ridiculed our Master’s plan.
They believed that there would not be enough room in the star lit universe they
gazed upon to house all the generations of believers going to meet their Maker.
Surely one would have to travel from star to star to find their friends in
Heaven. These nay Sayers small minds could not begin to fathom the size of the
heavens that we know exist today. There are galaxies upon galaxies billions of
light years away that tower over the meager size of our small visible sphere.
It would take our fastest rocket millions of years to reach the outer limits of
the universe. The universe is so big it is beyond understanding and those who
believe they can comprehend God’s world only have balloon minds, minds that are
full of hot air and blown out of proportion by their egos. Today scientists are
finding the building patterns of life on the earth so complex, with so many
combinations, that it is impossible for the world to be created by chance.
There must be a superior being with a master plan. The more we know, the more
we are amazed at what we don’t know, will never know, will
never be able to comprehend. There is only one solution to fathoming our
existence, and that is to have the faith of a child. With child like faith the
Holy Spirit can spiritually open our eyes to understand what our meager minds
are able to comprehend, and to accept that which will only be known to us in
Heaven. We are all at different stages
in our faith, in our love for our Master. We must remember when problems
overwhelm us, when we need His tender assurance, when we do not feel our
Savior’s presence, the love of Jesus Christ is always
around us. Jesus will answer our prayers, do what is best for us, help us to complete what He has deigned for us to do. Jesus
will always send the Holy Spirit to strengthen and renew our faith, He will
send angels to watch over and protect us. But most important of all, through
faith our Savior lives in our hearts. He is part of us and we are part of Him
forever.
There will be a judgment
day. Some fear this day, not sure whether they will measure up, afraid they may
wind up in hell. Others are scared to have all of their sins judged, they
secret desires exposed. But fear cannot save you, fear merely alerts one to all
the sins they have. Only love enables one to come to Jesus, only love makes us
truly sorry for our sins, makes us truly want to repent. There will be two
sides on judgment day. Those who are in the family of Jesus
Christ and those who have never submitted their will to God.
True believers make up
Christ’s real church and their names have already been written in Heaven. We
have been made holy, spotless by the grace of Jesus Christ. Our sins have been
forgiven and forgotten forever. There is no sin for God to judge us on. We will
be given the greatest spiritual blessing of all, eternal life in Heaven with our
Lord. But we will also have to account for what we did for our Lord while on
earth. Some much was expected from, others less, but all will receive their
just due in Heaven. Many of the greatest on earth will become the least in
Heaven, and many of the least on earth will become the greatest in Heaven. For
those exalted in Heaven will be the humble, those who were willing to serve
others. Those who hearts were full of Christ’s love, who did everything for the
love of their Savior, not desiring any recognition of their own.
Only those who have
rejected Jesus Christ need to fear judgment day. When God’s
wrath will be poured out on all the unbelievers for their disobedience to His
will. When all offenses committed against believers because of their
faith in Jesus will be avenged. When those that led any astray from Jesus,
especially children, will be chastised. When those who did
not help the poor and needy will pay for their selfishness. When the
unfaithful will be humiliated as they tried to humiliated their God, as they
humiliated believers. Then all unbelievers will be banished from God’s love to
spend eternity with Satan in the fires of Hell.
One last thought, we are not saved by what is in our minds but what is in
our hearts. We will always have a battle controlling our mind when it
rationalizes worldly desires as God pleasing. But be very wary when your heart,
your spiritual conscience, does not question your actions, does not make you
feel guilty. Make sure Jesus is always in your heart, let your heart always
listen to what He says, let your heart always follow
His commands.