The end of life is not really the end, but the beginning of eternity. What we have done on earth will be judged, and all the secrets of our hearts will be revealed. While we live this life, we have no way of seeing into a person’s heart, but when someone stands before God, He sees it all. We will have to give an account of our lives after we die, and there is no real way to be prepared for it unless we love and know God now. God is a forgiving God, and it is through Jesus that our sins are forgiven.
God knows that we can’t know everything here on earth, but He has revealed His truth to us. It doesn’t matter the degree to which we believed the truth, what matters is did we live it? Only God can judge us to the extent to which we lived the truth, so in a real sense our judgment is the same, with varying degrees to which we are rewarded or punished. Our deeds don’t save us, it is our faith that God will look at in order to really determine if we truly believed the truth or not.
If we had faith other than in God’s saving grace, we will be punished after we die, but if we had faith in His saving grace we will be rewarded. While it is true that God saves us, we must demonstrate that we believe in the grace now, or before we pass on. The Bible teaches that we are justified by faith in Jesus, so to demonstrate that here, we must believe in Jesus. When we die this way, we enter eternity forgiven sinners, and God essentially says to us that because of our faith in Jesus we can enter Heaven. This is Mike.
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