Are You Good Enough To Go To Heaven?

The Nountaineer

In this "works based" world of being good enough, there is a question that is always hovering in the back of the minds of those who have this belief and that is : have I been "Good Enough", to avoid hell and eventually see heaven? Most do not even want to consider that possibility and avoid even thinking about it. They often consider, at least sub-consciously that they are "good enough" because they do good things, or they are better than their neighbor, in their own minds. But the bottom line is this : How do I really know for sure? The fact is, is that they can not know! They are likely to say, if asked, I am a good person, I have never killed anyone or they have not broken many of the 10 commandments. They do not want to believe that the Bible is God's Inspired Word and must be taken seriously! If asked, they have their share of excuses why God should let them into "His Heaven". What do you believe? Are you "good enough"? If you are not very familiar with the Bible then you probably think that you are pretty good, don't you? I would like for you to consider what God has to say about this matter. God says that "He alone is Good". Did you know that? Then where does that leave you if you are not good? It leaves you without any hope at all! Your only hope is to do exactly what God says that we must do! Are you even a little bit interested in knowing what that is! I hope that by now, you are very interested and wish that I would get to the point.

I am now ready to tell you. It is a "free gift"! That's right, it is free but there is a catch. You must believe by "Real Faith", with all of your heart, soul and strength that Jesus is exactly what He and the rest of the Bible says that He is. For that "faith" is  like the "faith of Abraham' who was ready to kill his only beloved, promised son because he trusted God and believed by faith that God was able and willing to actually raise his son Isaac from the dead! This passage is found in the book of Genesis, Chapter 22. Now do you understand how important it is to trust God by Faith? It is not an easy thing to do. Not at all, yet it is necessary to believe with the simple faith of a child! Children are very trusting when they are very young and we are told by Christ that we MUST have that kind of faith! Do I possess that kind of faith? Not always! Trusting God can be a very difficult thing to do especially when suffering and pain and disappointment and many other kinds of struggles enter into our lives. I am going through those kinds of things right now and my faith has been weak and I am struggling to overcome my doubts! The Christian life can be and is very difficult at times. Are YOU ready to have the kind of "Saving Faith" that is necessary to escape the horrors of an eternity in HELL? Let me encourage you to do it right now because you could die tonight!!! God has declared that He knows the number of hairs on our heads! His knowledge of us personally is such that there is nothing that "God Does Not Know"about us. He also knows every heartbeat and how many we will have in our lives. He therefore knows the day of our death as well and we do not!

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Another Soul Enters Eternity

                                                                   The Nountaineer



I have felt unusually down-in-the-dumps lately and I have not understood why. Today, I went to a Super Store whose name I will leave unmentioned, and at the next check-out counter I recognized three women of whom two do not live in my neck of- the-woods normally but I knew why they were in the area. The 90-year-old mother of the two sisters were in town because their mother had suffered  some Type of  heart attack. I had been in the dark except for a brief description about this woman being in the hospital. We finished checking-out at the same time and I was very anxious to ask about their mother. When I did, I was given the bad news that she had passed away yesterday.

I ate lunch with this woman in a semi-public facility a few times each week, and had done so for a few years. I had been very concerned about her because she had behaved in an unusual way, Other than  in previous months. Her attitude toward me had changed, even though I took very good care of her. I suspected that it had to do with the fact that I had on a few occasions mentioned that I was a Christian and had made brief comments to another person sitting with us, along those lines.  Even though these comments were made to other people seated with us, I suspected that it bothered her somehow. I believe that she was not "Saved"and she had developed hard feelings toward me, because of it, somehow. I am now convinced that The Holy Spirit had worked on her heart but she was resistant. I had waited for an opportunity to witness to her but she never joined the conversation when Christian related comments were made in her hearing. My heart has been very burdened because of her spiritual condition and somehow, The Holy Spirit was causing me to be troubled over her condition because her time was short!

This goes back to other posts that I have written about "Spiritual Gifting"and It was the gift of "Spiritual Discernment" which is in the Bible called, "Discerning of Spirits" that through God's Spirit, had troubled me for this past week or longer! Now she is Gone and I am convinced that she is not in a good place because of her stubbornness and now she will have to endure an eternity of punishment. I can not tell you how saddened I am over this situation and wish it had turned out differently

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If you have anyone close to you who you suspect that he or she is not saved then make every effort to talk to them, privately, if possible because you may not have another chance, which was the case in my life. It is too important to allow an opportunity to witness to pass by! Eternity is a very long time, especially in hell.

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