As you are preparing to fall asleep in a quiet dark room, try this exercise based on Luke 16: 19-31. Imagine that every bone and muscle in your body aches. Your stomach is nauseous. Your brain is about to explode from a headache. Every illness you have known comes back on you. There is a sense of anxiety and depression. Loneliness is overwhelming. A sense of helplessness is frustrating because of a sensation of being trapped. Fear grips you to the core. Regret is haunting. The loudness of noxious sound continually rings in your ears. Your heightened awareness drives you mad with no way to scream. All of this is because God is not part of your life after rejecting him.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS, do you? I don’t blame you. The experience would be something to dread. It would haunt you during your waking hours.
Now, understand that the Bible tries to explain to us what hell is like. However, in whatever way I define it, it is insufficient and only equal to 1/1,000,000,000,000 trillion.
With this description in mind, and a possibility that it becomes a reality without knowing Christ as your Savior, what is the logical thing to do? Obviously, fall on your knees, confess your sin, beg his forgiveness, ask him to come in your heart and make you a Christian, a child of God.
If this is disconcerting to you, how much motivation is it to reach out to those that have yet to become Christian and witness to them as a way to avoid the eternal anguish in their destination. Let us become motivated by love for others in the power of Christ’s resurrection. Show your actions and words that you care about yourself and those in your world.
Christian Writer 