Not The End

 Right across the street from my office window I can see the Spring Creek Cemetery. Many people are buried there. Many tears have been shed in that place grieving the loss of loved ones. That is the end of the road for lives. Or at least that is the way it appears to the eyes. 

There is a far greater reality unseen. Cemeteries are not the end. The remains of a person may be laid to rest in a casket there, but the truth is that person lives on in eternity. They either live on in eternal life or eternal damnation. 

We cannot fathom what Heaven will be like. We can imagine. We see a few glimpses from the Bible, but we only see in part. There are many songs about Heaven. We can sing about it, but at best we are singing about something we know little about. We cannot imagine the beauty, majesty, the sights an sounds of being in the presence of Yahweh and Jesus. Life just begins then. Life that will go on into infinity and beyond. Eternal life. Everlasting life. 

On the other hand, there is another everlasting life in torment, agony, anguish, torture in darkness surrounded by the flames of hell. The cemetery might be the end where bodies are buried. That is not the end. We can't see the end. EVREYONE DOES  NOT GET TO HEAVEN. Sometimes you can read an obituary that describes someone "going to be with the Lord." How do we know? Apart from a personal relationship with Jesus and trusting His saving grace nobody gets to Heaven. Nobody. You can't bluff your way in or buy your way in. NOBODY GETS IN EXCEPT THROUGH JESUS. John 14:6

Tombstones have dates engraved of a person's birth and death. Don't be fooled. The date of death is not the end. It is the beginning of eternal celebration or eternal misery and damnation. Which will it be for you?