FACING DEATH
Today's reading: Ecclesiastes 7-8
"...And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue those who practice it." Ecclesiastes 8:8 NLT
I have friends and loved ones, as I am sure you do, that are not saved. They refuse the Gospel and its message of salvation. They don't believe they need God.
It breaks my heart for them.
It scares me for their eternal souls.
Because, as the verse says, all they are leaning on in this world is of no use to them now--and will be even less use to them when death comes to their bodies.
Careers won't rescue them from hell.
Educations won't relieve them of eternal misery.
Recreation won't carry their spirits to a sweet reward.
Alcohol will no longer dull their pain.
Drugs will no longer carry their minds to distorted places of 'peace'.
They themselves will find that they are lacking, incapable and--in their last moments, wrong.
But if they had Jesus...
If they knew God, and He knew them as His own...
If the Holy Spirit were guarantor for their lives...
They would be rescued.
