If you go to your favorite restaurant you will be faced with many choices. Do you order the chicken, seafood, or the beef? How to you want to prepared? If you choose beef you get to choose medium or well. Then you get to choose your sides. Choices and more choices. The good news is it’s up to you and your taste buds. The choice is yours.
Some choices are easier than others. I love chicken, it is my favorite. That’s an easy choice. It is also an easy choice for my husband, no chicken at all. No chicken is a easy choice for her.
Another choice that is ours, is whether to go to heaven or hell, it’s not God’s decision it’s ours. And it should be an easy decision for us.
Heaven or Hell?
Jesus said in John 14 that He was going to prepare a place for us and that He will receive us. That places heaven. The one He receives is those who are born again those who have believed and confessed that Jesus is Lord (Romans 10:9-10).
Those who do not confess Jesus as Lord will go to hell when they draw their last breath. Remember it’s not God’s will for any to perish or go to hell (1 Timothy 2:4). It’s not God’s plan for anyone to end up in hell.
It’s our choice. If we choose Jesus, we become a part of His family (we will be graphed in) and get to go to heaven and live with Him in eternity. However, if a person rejects Jesus they get to go to hell and live with their father satan for eternity (John 8:44).
God does not predestine anyone to hell. That is not His plan, will, or decision. He gives us the choice and we do the choosing. If Be predestined anyone to hell, He would be an unjust, unloving father, which is the opposite of His nature and character.
God in His love had predestined everyone to live eternally with Him in heaven (Ephesians 1:5). That means it’s His will for all to be saved and live eternally with Him in heaven. It is our choice. We choose to accept Him or reject Him. I am ultimately responsible for my choice.
God the Father does not send anyone to hell!
Not only am I responsible for my choice of heaven and hell. I am also responsible for sharing the good news with everyone around me. (Matthew 28:19-20).
Jesus has come and paid the price for us to give us an opportunity to go to heaven and not hell. It’s my responsibility to show people that God has made my life abundantly better than it was before.
Many times when we think about telling people about God it comes like this. “I have to share the good news and that comes with pressure and dread. But it doesn’t have to feel like that.
I changed my perspective on this. I don’t have to, I have the opportunity to share God with those around me. When I changed this I began to see it as an opportunity.
This attitude shift makes all the difference. The difference in me sharing the gospel and how I tell people about Him. The attitude is an important as the content.
There is a heaven to be gained and a hell to be avoided. If it’s God’s plan will and desire that all people go to heaven and live with Him in eternity. We have a great opportunity to share the good news.
We can offer to change someone’s life for eternity. And give them the choice between heaven and hell.
From Pity to Praise 