Are You Ready

"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23)

I was watching Stossel one night and they were talking about freezing people in order for them to live and never have to die. It's called Cryogenics, now, that made me sound smart. First time I ever heard about Cryogenics was on the movie "Demolition Man" starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes back in 1993. You remember, Simon Phoenix (Snipes) was a violent criminal who was frozen...it was the new way to imprison criminals.  But some bad guys in the government thawed him out. Then they had to thaw out the typical rough and tough, 80's cop John Spartan (Stallone) because due to the lack of crime in the future the new cops couldn't handle the wild and insane Simon Phoenix. Now that may have taken away the intelligent look that I had earlier. But anyway...back to Stossel. 

John Stossel asked a question to open the segment on Cryogenics, "Are you ready to live forever?" What a great question. We often as Christians ask people "If you died today, would you go to Heaven?" But Stossel's question was much better. 

A lot of people see dying as the end. It's not at all the end, but just the very beginning of eternity. We were all created to live forever, but due to sin, our bodies will die. But the real us, our souls, what makes us think, laugh, cry and sing will live on. When our bodies lay deep in the ground, we will be either  dancing and singing in Heaven or agonizing and screaming in Hades. But for sure, we will all be in one of the two places. 

So think about that question again, really think about it, "Are you ready to live forever?" You can know for sure. 1 John 5:13 says, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life." Do you want to know? If so, Jesus says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). It's all a matter of turning to Jesus in repentance and making Him your Lord and in turn making you ready to live forever. 

Vern