Sure Win!

“Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his Kingdom

all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.” Matthew 13:40-42

Many people do not believe in hell anymore. But here Jesus describes hell as a fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. We either believe Jesus, who gave up His power and glory to tell us this truth among many, or not. In the world today, many people prefer to make up their own ‘story’ about what will happen when we die. They do not like the idea of a fiery furnace so they reject it, saying how can a good God do that? Or they reject God Himself. Many believe that all religions will lead us to heaven or nirvana because one can find truth in all of them. But how is that possible when they contradict one another? 

Why have I decided to believe Jesus and what He says? When I was younger, I searched for God in all sorts of books and readings. But if we want to find God, we need only to read the Bible. “You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me.” (John 5:39) Many atheists and agnostics have become believers when confronted with mathematical proof that the prophecies in the Old Testament could only point to one man, Jesus Christ. The odds of one man fulfilling just 8 of the 300+ prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. Completely mind boggling, absurd and impossible. But one man's life fulfilled all the 300+ prophecies in the Old Testament!  No wonder Jesus said He wouldn't give us any more signs! There were more than enough signs. And there would be one more mind boggling sign when, like Jonah, Jesus was entombed for three days and rose from the dead! 

Sometimes we focus our energies and resources on all sorts of things. We want to become experts in this or that. We want to be the best in what we do, whether it be an insurance agent, teacher, or doctor. But we also have to think about what happens to us after we die. There is a treasure to be found even now which will endure when all our degrees, trophies and money will be worth nothing at all. Let us also spend time finding it! Life is not a gambling game, it can be a sure win!