"Eternity Awaits!"

 

“Eternity Awaits!”

 

So, be truly glad.  There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while.  These trials will show that your faith is genuine.  It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold---though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.  So, when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.   1Peter 1:6-7

 

A TRUE BELIEVER may face various trials, but they can FACE them, knowing that there is a PURPOSE for each trial that comes their way.  And with that KNOWLEDGE they can have WONDRFUL JOY in the ASSURANCE of their PROTECTED ETERNAL INHERITANCE, and the ASSURANCE of their PROVEN FAITH, or the GENUINENESS of their FAITH. 

 

They can take heart, in KNOWING that TROUBLES do NOT LAST, they serve a PURPOSE, they do bring DISTRESS, which is like the FIRE getting hotter, and they come in VARIOUS forms.  But they SHOULD NOT diminish the TRUE BELIEVERS JOY!  We are NOT talking about EVERYDAY PROBLEMS, but mostly PERSECUTIONS that we might face, concerning our FAITH in JESUS CHRIST.   This is where our FAITH comes in to view, what will we do about those HARD TIMES of PERSECUTIONS that tend to WEAKEN our FAITH, when it SHOULD withstand the FIRES of ADVERSITIES. 

 

The ONLY way we can go through these TRIALS is to TURN TO GOD, and put our FAITH and TRUST in Him. BELIEVING that He has a PURPOSE and WILL NOT allow more than we can stand, and we can realize that God’s PURPOSE is to TEST the REALNESS of our FAITH.  When one goes through a trial, and STILL TRUSTS in the LORD, they can be ASSURED that their FAITH is GENUINE. And that it is STRONGER than when they first went through the FIRES of ADVERSITY. 

 

And through that STRONG FAITH they have a PRICELESS INHERITANCE---an INHERITANCE that is KEPT in HEAVEN for them, PURE and UNDEFILED beyond CHANGE and DECAY.  So, they can be TRULY JOYOUS for what is waiting for them in their ETERNAL HOME. 

 

This VICTORY will result in PRAISE, GLORY and HONOR at the REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST.  And though we have NOT seen Him, we LOVE Him, and though we do NOT see Him NOW, we BELIEVE IN Him, therefore we, the TRUE BELIEVERS, can GREATLY REJOICE with JOY INEXPRESSIBLE and FULL OF GLORY, obtaining as the OUTCOME of our FAITH, the SALVATION of our souls, and knowing that ETERNITY AWAITS!!  Where will YOU spend your ETERNITY?

 

If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God then your ETERNITY will be in HELL with ALL its HORRORS and NO WAY of ESCAPE, once you are there.  But God has a PLAN to RESCUE you from the UNENDING SUFFERING of HELL. If you will TURN AWAY from your sinful life-style, and TURN TO HIM, He will SAVE your SOUL from that DESTINY.  This is what you MUST DO.  You MUST ADMIT that you are a SINNER, in NEED of a SAVIOR, then you MUST BELIEVE that JESUS CHRIST, God’s Son, died for YOU and that HE is ALIVE in HEAVEN.  You MUST CONFESS your sins to Him, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST ACCEPT His Gift of SALVATION, and face every TRIAL with a STRONG FAITH, REMEMBERING that ETERNITY AWAITS!!  So, do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!