So over this past semester I have lost a great aunt and a great uncle. It has really got me thinking about life and death. To my knowledge (so not fact but fairly assumable) my great aunt was not saved. It hurts to think about her spending eternity in hell. Sometimes I have often wondered what hell would really be like, but because I really want to go to find out, but simply because I wonder. Some people call earth a living hell or earthly hell, but I don't really think life on earth compares at all. I could not imagine being eternally separated from my heavenly Father. I cannot imagine a life where I don't live for Him. So to think that my aunt and many others that I have known are living in a place without God for the rest of their lives scares me. It makes me want to go to every person I know that isn't saved (or at least there is no fruit) and tell them about God and MAKE them respond. But I know that it is only the working of the Holy Spirit in ones life that will change their hearts, but still I want to and need to be telling these people about the greatness of Christ and what He has done for us. On the flip side to all of this is my great uncle rejoicing this very moment with Christ. This very morning he was able to run into the arms of our Savior and tell him how much he loves Him. What a great feeling it is to know that a family member went to be with our Father, to celebrate and rejoice and forever worship our Lord in the most perfect of perfect place, with our Father.
Life and death, what an interesting and thought provoking topic. I breaks my heart to know when a person does not enter the kingdom of heaven, and yet I can rejoice right now because one of my very own family members just met Christ today... a very privileged man he is.
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