A series of events in my life recently compelled me to think about what Jesus meant by the words, “But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven” –Matthew 10:33. This in turn made me think of other questions, once one goes to hell, does that mean that you are wiped out completely from the face of God? (just like the phrase we so often use, wiped out from the face of the earth?) Will there be another covenant or will that be the end of the person?
The thoughts of this frighten me, as I couldn’t imagine the fate of the one who has been rejected by the God because he/she rejected Him while on earth yet He made it so simple for us while on earth through the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus –Romans 10:9,10.
The thought at the same time sent chills down my spine thinking about a person’s eternal fate. I couldn’t help imagine a loud voice, louder than the loudest thunder ever heard, tell one “GET OUT OF MY SIGHT, I DO NOT KNOW YOU!” and immediately you go tumbling down into the lake of fire bearing all that rejection, rejection that you have never ever felt in your whole life, nothing can compare to it, nothing that you’ve ever had to endure. All these with the thoughts’ running down your mind, ‘why didn’t I listen while on earth?’ ‘I wish I knew better!” But it’s oh no! it’s too late!
One thing for sure, we definitely don’t want to be in this position or imagine anyone in that position when judgment time comes. The questions I keep asking myself are; why is it so easy for others to believe and so hard for others? What is there to doubt after the many miracles we’ve read time and time again from the Scriptures and miracles we’ve probably seen or heard through other people’s testimonies that we may know? The creation also speaks of God, the skies and clouds, the rain and sunshine, the seas and oceans, the mountains and yes, you –your eyes that you use to see, your ears that you use to hear, your mouth that you use to speak, your nose that you use to smell and breath…no human being can create this, only God did! –Genesis 1-2:22. So why don’t we see it?
As Christians, I believe God wants us to reach out to every single heart that wants to know the truth about Him -to those who don’t know where to start, to those who don’t know what the truth really is, to those who have found truth but are still lingering, to those who think life is just a game and eventually some win and some loose. And not forgetting, those who are totally sold out for God and are serving Him faithfully and need to hear that they are living real and they shouldn’t give up but keep pressing on. In Jesus, we all have the opportunity to win and finally find a resting place here on earth which goes on to eternity –“May Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven –Matthew 6:10b”.
I have this platform to tell you about Who God is, I can never take the place of the Bible but I can speak of what I hear from Him. I have seen Him in my life in major ways and I wish I could share everything with you. In the meantime, I do what I can do now while praying that He will continue to show me what His purpose in my life is. He continues to teach me (because I am the first to admit that I am still in the race, I haven’t reached, never have –Phillipians 3:12 but I am one person who can prove that God can use anyone –‘if God can use a donkey, why not I’ –Numbers 22:30). Before I was born, He is the One who chose that I come to this earth for a purpose and I’m excited to know it and live it.
If you know the truth about God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth, the one who created you and sent Jesus to die on the cross for, don’t ever hesitate to tell someone else who may not know and is searching or not searching and pray that God would reveal Himself to him/her just like He revealed Himself to you so that you started to believe. Through the answer to this prayer, he/she will bear his/her own conviction.
This is my heart that we would tell the truth about God with every opportunity given to us.
As Christians, keep your testimony intact because you don’t know who’s watching and may stumble because you don’t do as you believe or prophess to believe. And for those looking to judge, we ought to know that it’s not up to us to stumble because of other people’s example because at the end of the day, just like Paul in Phillipians 3:12, “we (Christians) are all still in the race” and it doesn’t end now but there may be more times when we may fall because we are not perfect, but always keeping in our minds that calls us to be “holy as He is Holy”.