It's Not A Guessing Game.....

     Many people have many an angst about heaven.  Will I make the cut?  Will I be accepted?  If I died tonight would I be received into heaven?  Some people have great anxiety over this.  There is a way in the Bible for us to go and be assured that heaven is our next home when we leave this earth.  I John 5:13 says… I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.  So, there you have it, the angst should be over.

     There are many other people who give no thought or have no anxiety over the heaven issue.  They take for granted that heaven will be there next home.  They assume (remember what assuming can do to you) heaven is a given.  They believe that God could not imagine heaven without them.  Heaven is just what happens when a person dies.  Heaven is a place for ‘good people’ and that’s me, so bring it on… just not right now.

     Here’s a story for your consideration… A city dandy, happened on a dilapidated train depot way up in the Catskill mountains of New York state.  The dandy was well-dressed, driving a shiny black Cadillac and he was full of pride.  The depot was unkempt and inactive.  But it did have a manager on location.  He was old, feeble, not well-dressed (he looked like the depot) and he was reclined in a chair taking a snooze when the city boy found him.  He tapped the chair to wake the elderly RR employer.  Then with a lot of arrogance and sarcasm, the city fellow said to the older gentleman, “Is this Grand Central Station?”  “No” said the railroader, “but you’re on the right track!”

     I admit, here on earth we are a long way to heaven, but are you on the ‘right track?’  The direction of your life is everything.  Nobody is perfect or sinless.  But everybody and anybody can be on the right track, that is headed in the right (heavenly) direction. 

     I don’t want to leave you hanging on this one, but the right track is trusting Jesus.  Believing and trusting that ‘He is who He said He is’ and ‘He can do what He said He can do.’  Who is He?  The son of God.  What can He do?  He and only He can forgive us of our sin.  Will Rogers once said “Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”