Day of Departure

"The time of my departure is at hand."

(2 Timothy 4:6)

Recently someone very dear to me found a friend of his, who he had just seen 30 minutes prior, slumped over in his chair, dead.

Gone.

Without warning, his friend stepped into eternity.

During the last few days I have had three extremely close calls in my business travels on the road.

In three separate instances, semi trucks suddenly drifted over into my lane when I was directly alongside them. I had nowhere to go and could only pray and hold on for dear life.

Had God not intervened, preserving my life, I would not be here writing this today.

The point is, none of us know when our day of departure will be.

Death can be so sudden, and it is final. There is no coming back.

"Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us." (Luke 16:25-26)

If you suddenly stepped into eternity today, do you know where you would go?

Are you absolutely sure where your final destination is?

"There is no heaven or hell! When you die it's all over!" you might say.

However, I believe that your conscience tells you otherwise.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Human beings are the only species in whom God has placed a conscience, and an innate conviction that there is indeed life after death. He has placed eternity in man's heart.

And there are only two choices when it comes to a person's eternal destination: darkness—or light.

The solution to this problem is good news indeed. And in two thousand years, the message has still not changed. Straight from the mouth of Jesus Himself: He is the way—the only way.

No matter how good a person you think you are, God will not judge you based on your worldly standard of "good." He will judge you according to His absolutely perfect standard of good—which is Himself.

But because of the love and grace of God, you can step into eternal love and light, instead of eternal pain and darkness—if you will open your heart to Jesus the Son of God.

The last six thousand years of world history proves that man, left to his own devices, will eventually destroy this planet and destroy each other. In a moral sense, mankind is clearly not evolving, but rather, devolving.

The real question is—do you personally know where you're going? 

Do you know absolutely know for certain where your final destination will be, on that day you step into eternity?

As my son did for me, call those near and dear to you today—don't wait—and tell them you love and appreciate them. 

Don't leave anything important unsaid.

...None of us know when our day of departure will be.

—God is Love, and Love Never Fails.