Will you make it?
Not everyone will make it to heaven. Not everyone will be saved.
It's a scary thought I think of from time to time. Why can't everyone be saved? The answer is simple because many people don't want to be and never will.
Many will end up in hell and will trade their own soul in favor of all the worlds temporary pleasures while rejecting what Jesus Christ did on the cross. Jesus mentions this in the book of Matthew.
You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.
Matthew 7:13-14 NLT
A movie that comes to mind is the disaster movie "2012" when the government discovers that a cataclysmic event will occur in the future so they build futuristic arks in China to save humanity.
*Spoiler warning*
The protagonist, Jackson Curtis is a man with family issues living the typical American life but soon is thrust into earth shattering events along with his family.
Preluding those events he discovers the truth about whats to come from a man named Charlie Frost and his possession of a map that leads to where the arks are. At first he mocks the man casting him off as a crazy person that is delusional. But as he comes to see the events unfold before him he returns to obtain that map realizing it's what will save him and his family.
The journey to get to the arks now becomes a life or death situation and the odds of getting there become bleak as natures destructive forces are unleashed. After a long and treacherous journey they eventually make it to the ark.
This reminds me of Noah's story in Genesis and also what Jesus says about his second coming.
When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed them all. And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 17:26-30
You see there are parallels to these stories in our own lives. Like Jackson we may laugh or mock someone as crazy but in reality it is the truth that will ultimately save us.
Much of the world is so wrapped up with their own mindless pursuits that they don't see the wrath and destruction that will come upon them. They laugh, they mock the Bible and say to themselves they can live without Christ. And it's true you definitely can.
But when disaster strikes, when death comes, when Christ returns will you be in the ark of salvation or outside of it begging to be let in?
When the last days occur it will be like the time of Noah and Lot many will not see the flood and fire coming at all. They will not be ready. It's why I post about Jesus and the message of the gospel that brings people into the ark of salvation. It is the only way we can be truly saved.
