When God Comes Back

   Hurriedly I scurried around the house.  Focused on the many things that were waiting on me I was getting ready quickly when a little voice broke into my consciousness. “Mom, what’s it gonna be like when God comes back?”

   “When God comes back?” I echoed. “You mean when Jesus comes again?”

   “Yeah,” he responded.

   “Oh,”  I said excitedly, “the trumpet is going to sound, and . . .”

   “What about the big book?” He interrupted me. “The big book?” I asked, as I continued in my rush . . . “Oh, you mean the Book of Life.”

    “Well,” I started . . .

    “Where is it?”  He continued.

    “It’s in Heaven,” I began my explanation. “Your name has to be written in the Book of Life for you to go to . . .”

      “Mom,” he said in an exasperated tone, “I’m trying to tell you something here.”

 That stopped me in my tracks.

    “You know that flower I said I made?”  I had to think a moment . . . then, I remembered. He had gotten some clay like sticks for Christmas and had brought me the prettiest flower.

    “Yes,” I answered.

    “I really didn’t make that, Elena did.”

 I went over and sat on the bed. His little heart was convicted! He had told a lie! And while it wasn’t earth shattering to anyone else, He knew He couldn’t get into Heaven with black in his heart. This had to be dealt with – it mattered big time in the building of his character as well as his eternal life! Thanking the Holy Spirit for his tender heart I left what I was doing and went over to where he was.

     I sat on the bed and we talked about it. I explained that I loved him because he was my son, not for what he could do. We talked about the “Book of Life” and how the Bible tells us a choice to lie doesn’t make Heaven our home – but Hell instead!

   He prayed and asked Jesus to forgive him, and asked those involved for forgiveness, too. Peace pervaded His heart as he knew his name was in the book of life.

   My rush to begin the day was interrupted – but somehow, I felt the most important thing of my whole day had just happened . . .

   “Mom, what’s it gonna be like when God comes back . . .”

    Jesus, keep me ready!

 

Take it with You

“He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone,  which is the second death.” Revelation 21:7 &8

Other scriptures:  Revelation 21:22-27

I Thessalonians: 4:16-18