Where do you live? Is it nice and welcoming? Can you stand to be apart from your home for long? Picture a child going camping. You set up the tents (a temporary dwelling place)
For the Christian, Heaven is our home which we are going to and this life is a mere tent. A temporary dwelling place. We are going on to a place beyond the sky, so we hold loosely to earthly things that we may inherit eternal life. The next life awaits us but where will you go? Are you certain of the place where you will spend your eternity. Eternity is a long time. Who can you trust? You can trust the One who purchased your salvation, my Hero and greatest Friend Jesus Christ. Lift Him up.
23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare[e] the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Genesis 18:23-26
In this passage of Scripture Abraham pleads with God on behalf of the evil city of Sodom. The destruction of that city is calling to wake up. The destruction of that city is "an example", the Bible says "of what is going to happen to the ungodly". 2 Peter 2:6
Whilst living in this world you may think "I am enjoying myself, I don't need Christ", but God is no respecter of persons and He will judge you according to the way you have lived. It's time to open up your Bible. Dust off the cobwebs. It time to get to know your Saviour and get ready for His coming. And He is coming. Jesus is coming again. How will His return find you? Awake or asleep. Comfortable or living. Compromising or committed? You choose. It's your life and you alone are responsible for it. It's time to wake up.
If you are coasting through this life, it's time to wake up!, get up sleepy head! your salvation is nearer than when you first believed. Stop fearing, start trusting, imitate Christ and allow His love to fill you and then flow through you.
