Where will your next vacation destination be? The mountains with their majestic scenery and abundant wildlife? The ocean with warm waves lapping the stress of work away and the sun providing a golden tan? Maybe the Grand Canyon with its rugged beauty, Mount Rushmore with its unbelievable portraits, the expanse of deserts out West, the Mammoth caves of Kentucky, the luxurious sub-zero rooms built into the face of an iceberg?
Built onto the side of an iceberg, vacationers can now finally spend a night on an arctic waterbed. What else can the human mind dream up? Please don’t be worried that a passing ship will hurt your iceberg – icebergs sink ships! Don’t worry that your iceberg may form a crack, break off and slide in the ocean. Don’t worry that your iceberg may decide to roll over and submerge you into that sub-zero freezing water. Is your cell phone waterproof?
People spend a great amount of time and money planning and scheduling exotic vacations. How much time is invested in planning and scheduling your life-after-death plans? A majority have the notion of whatever-will-be will be. That has not proven to be a wise strategy. Jesus has time and again spoke of the Kingdom of God but most people are more interested in the Kingdom at Disneyland for some strange reason. Vacations are temporary! Death has proven to be a more permanent condition. Wouldn’t it be prudent to invest a little time in planning for an after death experience?
The gospel of Luke 16 records the story of two men dying and one of the men finding himself in a most uncompromising position. He found himself in torment while the other man found himself in the presence of God. Jesus spoke of a conscious existence after death, the reality and torment of hell, and no second chance to change your circumstance after death. Two different men, two different lives, two different deaths, two different destinies. Is that too cool or what? The obvious answer is … or what: What are your plans after death?
There are two types of faith, little faith and great faith. When it comes to plans after death, great faith sustains. What’s the difference you say? Little faith was what the fishermen in the boat on the Sea of Galilee had when they told Jesus that they knew what a dangerous storm could do and that they knew more than Jesus. He rebuked them as having 'little faith'. Great faith is when you’re a Roman centurion and ask Jesus to heal your sick servant without going to the soldiers home, but, by just speaking the words and it’ll be done—and it was. This is ‘great faith’. I ask you again…What are your plans after death? Whatever they are, do it with ‘great faith’.
“And it shall come to past, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Acts 2:21
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