Time is the great equalizer. Rich or poor, smart or not-so, bad or good, we are all allotted the same number of minutes, seconds, and nanoseconds a day.
It’s God Who determines when our time is up. How we leave, and under what circumstances we’re leaving, are all up to Him. If one doesn’t believe in God, it doesn’t make life easier, nor does it make one more sophisticated and intelligent, nor does it add one iota to how much time one gets to live.
If you think logically about it – believing that one isn’t accountable to anyone for one’s choices in life is actually foolhardy. A horrible mistake. Because what if, at the end of it all, one were to discover that, alas, there IS a final judgment? And there IS, after all, a Creator, an almighty God Who we will all have to answer to? The God Who will determine our final destination? By then it’ll be too late.
Whereas, if one who believes in God dies, then discovers that there’s no God after all – well, then, he doesn’t lose anything. In fact, he would have experienced the advantage of having lived a meaningful life before fading into nothingness.
Blaise Pascal, a world-renowned mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher of his time presented us with that utterly pragmatic, intelligent approach.
His perspective makes belief in God not just a matter of faith but also of a matter of logic.
The Covid pandemic forced most of us to think of dying, and of life after death. Covid dealt us an instantaneous, deathly blow. It brought paralyzing fear, desperation and confusion to many homes. It was a different kind of war. A hapless war with an unseen, persistent enemy. And we flailed about blindly for a long, long time – many dying in brutal isolation – as we numbered our days, tried to stay alive, even gave up so much of our freedom in the desperate hope that a lockdown, a quarantine, a vaccine, and other strategies for survival would actually work. Still, untold numbers died in the process.
Many of us wasted our days in crippling fear, dread, anger, frustration, and hopelessness. While many survived with new, productive perspectives in life. And as we slowly re-emerged from our homes to regain our “lost freedoms,” we discovered who among us survived, died, and aged gracefully or ungracefully in the process.
But – barely have we regained our footing when another major crisis suddenly crashed upon us. The war in Israel. It came so unexpectedly, with such velocity and brutality, that the world was shocked. Most of all, the Israelis themselves.
If one doesn’t believe in the Bible as God’s Word, then the Israel War might seem too distant to make a ripple in our lives.
But if we believe that the Bible was written as a blueprint, a map to guide us into the future, so that we can find our way to heaven, then the Israel War is a major event that is there to warn us that we should seriously redeem our time. Now.
So may I humbly suggest that you get a Bible and please read the Book of Matthew, chapters 24 and 25. Also 1 Thessalonians chapters 4 and 5, and Ezekiel 38.
Then, as a bonus, if you want to receive a guaranteed, promised blessing in your life – please go ahead and read the Book of Revelation, too! This will give you a clear, life-changing picture of what is to come!
