August 27 – The Pathway to Heaven
Jude 1:24 “Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.”
Recently, Sushma Swaraj went so suddenly, Arun Jaitley, and many others. In fact in 2019, so many slipped away so suddenly. Some years back, David Bowie slipped from life to eternity and it got me thinking because I used to listen to some of his songs years back. I wondered where his soul went. No one will really ever know, because no one knows what transpires in the heart at the end of life. One thing we do know, in his life, he was always on a spiritual quest, he tried different pathways, then, he went through Nietzsche, Satanism, pretty much went through the long and winding road to find nothing much in the end, or so it seems. In Heaven, though, we will get many surprises. Perhaps in the very end, he found God Almighty. This is something between him and God. I have read many near death encounters of people in the shadow of the afterlife, the valley of shadow of death and I do believe they are given one last chance to meet the Light in that valley. Many respond to His amazing presence of Love and He takes them on a short journey to visit Heaven and then even shows some of them a glimpse of hell, perhaps to let them know it is real. For some people, they actually descend down a horrible pit to hear screams of agony and cries. Some of the people who visit this terrifying place are aware that there are people in a dark dungeon who are clueless, standing around like zombies. They don’t even try to call out to God. We don’t really know how God will reveal Himself to them at another point; perhaps He will. The Bible says, hell and death will be swallowed up by the Lake of Fire. Does this mean that one day, death and hell will be destroyed forever? Only God knows. Thousands of people found God in a moment revelation.Salvation is a Truth encounter of the soul/heart combined with the illumination of the Holy Spirit. It is not an intellectual encounter. A person needs comes to a place of purity of just wanting Truth, nothing more, nothing less. This makes the Salvation encounter so easy and not a difficult maze. This is why millions of hungry souls find it difficult because they use intellectualism, occultism, and much more in the bargain, and got lost and more muddled up in the maze.
There is a moment of our illumination in God. This will decide our destiny. At the time of this illumination, a fire is put within us never to leave us, this is the Holy Spirit, dwelling within.We may fall and fail, and grieve the Holy Spirit and sin, but Jesus Himself will ensure that the fire inside will rise up again and again and convict us and keep bringing us back to the fold. Again, once a person is truly born again, they can never lose their Salvation.
The pathway to Heaven never depended on us, but on Him, who is faithful to keep us from falling. The pathway to Heaven is Grace and not Works. We can never do enough good to reach Heaven. We cannot earn Salvation through good works; though we act in faith to do good works as an overflow of our Salvation. Christ through the Holy Spirit in us enables us to work out our salvation through grace!
Rita
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