The Choice

When I was young I believed that I would go to Heaven when I die as long if I have been good enough. And if I hadn't been good enough then I would simply go to sleep forevermore and that would be the end of me. Nothing too scary - Heaven sounded nice for sure and that's what I wanted but the thought of going to sleep and drifting off into oblivion if I didn't make the grade didn't sound like a painful alternative. After all, I wouldn't even be conscious of anything, right?

WRONG!

That is a lie. There is no such thing as eternal sleep.

There is one, and only one, alternative to Heaven and that alternative is Hell.

The Bible says that while our body will pass away our soul is eternal and that we have one of two places to go after death - either Heaven or Hell. There is nothing in between. And if we are not for God then we are considered to be against Him. The choice is ours and we have to make it before we die because it will be too late after. And God will never force us to choose His way because He wants us to come on our own free will. He has given us the freedom to choose either eternal life or eternal destruction.

The Bible makes it clear that a terrifying, horrific place of pain and suffering referred to as Hell is very real and that those who choose it will still have to give an account of themselves standing before God. Revelation 20:13 says;

"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."

Described in the Bible as a place of horrendous pain and suffering (because evil resides there) the one and only alternative to Heaven is not my choice. Will it be yours?

p.s. "by their works" does not signify that we can buy our way into Heaven by being good enough or doing good things, for God tells us that is not enough. There is something else required of us. Check it out while there still is time. Read the Gospel of John.