The Weight of Eternity

So, I have been really contemplating the very thought of The Weight of Eternity lately! I think about when Jesus said that the gate is Wide to destruction and the path to life is Narrow. The more and more I think about the very thought of spending eternity without my Lord and Savior, the more I find myself cringe! I mean we are talking about eternity... never ending... under His wrath! How does this impact our lives? Does our heart break for those that surround us in life that are on their way towards the Wide Gate? I can't imagine that if we find ourselves surrendered to the Lord and in full repentance, found under His grace and bought with the price of His blood that we are only to be concerned with our eternal stake and no one else! The scary thing to me is that its not even just the people that demonstrate a straight forward life of disobedience and hate for God but even possibly through many that sit in the church pews! We are living in an age where the gospel is being twisted and rearranged to fit the format of what the world would have it to be. Its not enough to just believe that there is a God... there is MORE! I was chatting with a friend of mine about how I believe that to appropriately come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ is to first come to a realization of our depravity. I believe that we could never really understand the God who saved us by sending His Son on the Cross for our sins without understanding His right to bring full wrath to those who oppose Him and are His enemies! How could we ever believe that we can just live our lives in disobedience to Him and expect the blood of Jesus to cover us without full surrender to Him!

You know... Proverbs 1 reads, "The beginning of Wisdom is the fear of the Lord." I just can't believe that God would receive FOOLS into His kingdom, when He calls His true children to Himself for a beautiful, spent eternity! Therefore, the only way for us to be found wise in His eyes is through a fear of who He is! You see when we see God as the Sovereign and True King, we realize our desperate need of Him and our need of death to self! The question is: Have you thought of The Weight of Eternity and have you realized your need to die to self and turn to Him as your Savior? We really can't do anything to repay God for what has been offered to us! We can do nothing to gain it and we are completely disqualified to be called one of His own! But then that is where the incredible state of God's grace comes in action in our lives! If we choose to live in obedience to Him, dying to self and depending completely in Him, His promise of grace is TRUE!

The Weight of Eternity.... have you felt it lately? If you truly know Christ as your Savior, do you feel the weight mounting upon the world? Although we have absolutely no power to save any person from their state of separation from God, we can engage and help others understand the weight of eternity, a complete separation from God for eternity. And I pray, I pray, I pray... for the ones that do sit in the pews every week thinking that the blood of Christ doesn't come with a price, that they would wake up and realize that we are called to "Pick up our cross and Follow Him!" Its so much more than a belief unto God! There is a price and its our own lives! Its a transformation in Jesus Christ... Its a change of the heart... Its a surrender and a dying to the ways of the world and then a turning unto the Savior of the World!

Engaging the World with The One True Gospel,
Twiga