Good Tidings from Heaven

A SOUND INVESTMENT

It would be easy to be confused with the choice of investments available today — ISAs, AVCs, With Profits Bonds, Endowment Policies, Private Health Care, Critical Illness and Long Term Care Policies and many have discovered the advantages of tax havens where interest rates are appealingly higher. Insurance companies market aggressively in an effort to combat consumer lethargy and the notion that ‘it could never happen to me.’ There are policies to cover almost any eventuality in life and some are complacent in believing that they have watertight security for the years ahead. It is also a fact that more people are living longer and so there is an emphasis on investing for the future.

It all seems to make sense and yet how many people have absolutely no preparation for eternity. You may live to collect your pension but on the other hand you may never enjoy the nest-egg you are storing away — BUT you will be in eternity and there is no avoiding that. You will have to leave every penny behind. Have you been obsessed with material things, planning a retirement free from financial worries? Surely you have not been so foolhardy as to neglect ensuring your eternal welfare.

Do you think it will be a step in the dark? Are you merely hoping that all will turn out well? Surely you would not be so foolish as to try to console yourself that there is nothing beyond death or have you tried to persuade yourself that a God of love would not send any of His creatures to a place of torment forever? Allow the Word of God to settle this issue conclusively — "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" Hebrews 9.27

My dear friend, there is no need for uncertainty in these all-important matters; you can know here and now where you will be going when life is over. Would it not be wisdom to make this your top priority and be sure that all is well for eternity?

The apostle John wrote in 1John 5.13, "These things have I written unto you … that ye may know that ye have eternal life." No one can possess anything of greater value than eternal life and all the wealth of the world could not purchase it. However, you can receive it as a free gift according to Romans 6.23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" Nothing has cost God so much to provide and yet He offers it freely to all who feel their need of it. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3.16.

No one will ever be able to calculate how much Christ had to pay before salvation could be procured. "… the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2.20. Before He expired on the Cross the Lord Jesus proclaimed with a loud voice "It is finished" indicating that the full price of salvation had been paid.

If you want to make the safest investment you could ever make and know for certain that every risk regarding eternity has been removed, then trust Christ and …

"Know with assurance thou never cans’t die

  Since Jesus thy righteousness lives."