SERIOUS FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
By Pastor Dr. Aggrey Soyekwo
Matthew 25:46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." - NIV
Have you ever thought about eternity? This is a period of time beyond measure, time without end. One can’t even talk in terms of known units of measurement like billions, trillions, quadrillions of years, because that’s already measurable, however unfathomable it is to our little limited human minds.
To enable some slight understanding of eternity, someone once illustrated it this way: Consider the smallest ant, on a mission to move the whole earth to the farthest star in the universe. The farthest star so far known is about 9 billion light years away from earth. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. In one second, light travels at 299,792KMs. One year has over 31.5 million seconds. So in one year, light moves over 9.4trillion KMs. To the farthest star, it’s that distance multiplied 9billion times. That’s already beyond the range of our computations and numbering.
Even with modern supersonic jets, traveling at thousands of KMs per hour, such a journey is endless. How much more a little ant? And knowing how much the ant carries, when will it complete shifting the entire 6×10^24Kg mass of planet earth? Mission impossible! And yet one day it will complete it. But eternity would have just began!
God’s word teaches that all of us will spend eternity somewhere. There are only two destinies, heaven or hell determined by our decisions here on earth. Heaven is a place of great joy and peace for those to whom Jesus is Savior and Lord. Their names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. Hell is a place of extreme torment for those who rejected Jesus Savior and Lord Jesus. Please give serious thought to the question of where you will spend eternity. Choose to spend it in heaven by choosing Jesus the way. That’s God’s will for all of us.
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 "After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words."
Shalom children of God.