Through the Door and Living the Life

Colorblind And Lovin' It
(Basic Law No.9: We Are All Equal Beings In God's Sight. His Love For Each Of Us Is Total. Only Man Makes Distinctions.)

        "The sin of this one man Adam caused  death to be king over all . . . even the things of nature, like animals and plants, suffer in sickness and death ." (1)
                  This world we live in holds many wonderful and beautiful sights and experiences, in nature, in places, in people. We feel insignificant before endless oceans, the grandeur of majestic mountain ranges. We stand in awe of the awesome power unleashed in a volcano's fiery fury. We can see for ourselves the indescribable  beauty and innocence in a child's eyes; feel our own heartstrings touched as we witness some kind, impulsive and unselfish act; or see that knowing look, bridging two lives most mysteriously in an emotion-charged millisecond,  and in that same short span of time dissolving forever the space between two hearts and melting them together as one.
              Nevertheless our wonder and reverent acknowledgment of any such phenomena is always tempered by our knowing that all things and every experience and each person have to bow to time's tight clasp and face its inevitable touch of death. We are reluctant witnesses of sin's dark hold on God's creation. We may explain it away as best we can to appease our discomfort, philosophising that life has always been like that, that it's Mother Nature continually at work, culling the herd, balancing the chaotic, surviving the species. That merely shows our reluctance to admit our ignorance and helplessness before the cruel, illogical face of evil working its rot throughout this poor sinful and misguided Fallen World. Thus, by turning a blind eye to the presence of evil, by refusing to accept as its author a being so infinitely intelligent yet so unreasonably malicious and perverted, the human race effectively blinds its other eye to a God Who, in His unstoppable love and mercy has not only refused to apply the legitimate sentence of eternal damnation to a guilty race but sent His only Son, Jesus to pay the full penalty in its place.  "God so loved the world He sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, that whoever believed on Him should not suffer eternal death but have eternal life." (2)
                 If we can each go to whatever heaven we may imagine or choose to believe in, there would have been no need for Jesus to die on Calvary. If we can guarantee the heaven we believe in, or the lack of a heaven  or the total disintegration of our identities when death comes, then all Jesus' warnings regarding the possibility of going to an everlasting Hell of eternal torment is so much claptrap.
                  But if what Jesus said about Heaven and Hell, about Salvation and the Good News of coming to free us from the sentence of eternal death and eternal torment is true then we are so blessed and so fortunate to hear such things. For the Bible says :
"He who believes in Me, trusts Me and is really trusting God . . I   have come as a Light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in Me will no longer walk in darkness."(3)
                   So as you move into the next chapter in which you will see samples of God's words for every major area of your New Life, stand more amazed now at the realization that our wonderful God "is not willing that anyone should perish" (4).
 
 

Footnotes
1: Romans5:17a; 8:22 (Living Bible).
2: John 3:16'
3: John 12:44,46 (KJV;Liv.)
4: 2Pet.3:9.
5: Ephes.2:919 (Liv.)