Message from Scripture: 2/20/2021

Today our message from Scripture comes from Phil. 3:20. “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

I read an article some time ago entitled, “Not Many People Want to Go to Heaven Anymore.”  Perhaps, there is some truth to this.  Do we have a heavenly view of life?  This isn't to say we should all want to die right now.  However, do you approach life so, whenever you face death, whether it's tomorrow or 50 years from now, or whenever, you can have confidence about being in eternity with God?  One of Satan’s greatest temptations is to become consumed with the physical.  It's easy to give the spiritual just a token significance, to have little, if any, concern about the spiritual.

I don't know of anyone who doesn't desire to go to heaven, but the question is, do we take the time to live so we can go to heaven?  Jesus' words are still true and applicable for us today.  "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven" (Matt. 7:21).  Salvation is the gift of God through Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:23), but it's promised to the faithful, to those who commit their lives to Him, to live in Him and for Him, each and every day.

Let's never become so busy living life, that we don't have the time to live for God.  As each day brings you closer to eternity, allow the hope of heaven to offer a positive influence for your life. Do you take seriously each day this charge in Scripture; "Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life" (Rev. 2:10)? Jesus wants us to live each day until we die faithfully for Him, whether by natural causes, or in offering ourselves for Him. What a glorious sight it will be, as our eyes close in death from this existence, to look upon Him in the next. This is how to have a great day today, and forever. God bless.

Robert