A brand new year
Published 9:09 am Saturday, December 30, 2023
Monday begins a brand new year for us. Some of us have taken stock of our lives on New Year’s Eve, maybe even making resolutions, which most will soon break or abandon. The truth is that people who make resolutions are trying to change themselves, while only God can change anyone. Many people desperately need changing. They need a soul change. They need to be saved by trusting Christ with their souls.
Many would laugh at this idea, but then they will never read this article most likely. That is where Christian witness comes in. We Christians are commissioned to get the Word of God out to sinners (the lost). If we do not, some will never see Heaven. Not only should we Christians do our duty and witness for the Lord, we should also count it a great and wonderful privilege. If someone saves your physical life, you are extremely grateful the rest of your life if you have any amount of decency in your character.
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Someone who witnesses to an unbeliever is attempting to do him the greatest of all favors. For this favor, if one responds, will save his soul forever. If he refuses God’s offer of free salvation, he will spend eternity in the isolation, regret, and torment of hell. What a shame, when Heaven is so easily attained just by believing in Christ. But too many people are too proud and too deceived of Satan to believe in Christ.
Christ Jesus is the only way to Heaven. In John 14:6, Jesus clearly states, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” There is no way to interpret this statement or bend it to mean other ways to Heaven, which our society, under Satan’s influence, believes and now proclaims. Satan has propagated many lies. Another is that one must be good to see Heaven, when the Bible clearly states that there is no one good on Earth (Romans 3:10).
So, as we who are fortunate to see January 1{sup}st{/sup}, let us be grateful to God and thank Him for life and His blessings. But, let us also realize that the single most important thing in life is to secure the destiny of our poor souls to Heaven. Far too many people have neglected this most important of all activities on Earth. Sadly, this life is your only opportunity to be saved for Heaven. and even sadder is the fact that you have no idea when you will die and lose all opportunity to be saved.
If there is a friend or family member, or anyone you love, who has never believed in and sought Christ for salvation, pray everyday many times for that one. and by all means do your best to persuade him to believe in and trust Christ as personal Savior. Otherwise, you will never see this loved one in Heaven. Explain to him that he must repent and call on the name of the Lord. Repentance is simply realizing and acknowledging one’s sinful state and need for a Savior. Then call on Christ to save, and He will certainly do it. Salvation is free and clear. Nothing you can do on Earth can earn it. Trust Christ today, dear friend, this could be your last chance to ever see Heaven and all those you love who are already there.