Is Heaven Certain?

Faking Christianity is one of the saddest ways to live. You can claim to know God; you may go to church, read your Bible, and pray every day but it all leads to, if I may put it bluntly, eternal devastation. Playing Christian does not get us into heaven. You may believe in God but you just “don’t know” or “don’t care”. But, believing does not get us into heaven; the devil believes in God. Just because you believe that Satan exists does not mean you expect to go to hell, so just because you believe in God doesn’t mean you should expect to go to heaven. 

False Christianity usually includes those who think belief is enough and those who think works are enough. If you claim to believe the Bible, then you believe the words of it, and by ourselves we are just simply not enough to achieve salvation. 

“For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.” – Romans 7:5-6

This clearly states that without the law sin would not exist. Without rules, there is nothing to break. This shows how great the evil of sin is. It can take something good and holy like the law and twist it to incentivized evil. Sin turns love into lust, it turns a desire to work into greed, it turns boldness into pride, it  turns the law into a promoter of sin. God knew this and that is why he sent Jesus. Because we are not capable of upholding the law. When Jesus died on the cross, so did the law and in that, we are not a slave to sin but alive in Christ. 

So belief and works aside, if you were to die today where do you think you would go? This is where the urgency of the gospel comes in. The reality is almost no one knows what it really means to be a Christian. It is so important for those who say they are Christians to know why and live that knowledge out, and it is important for people who are not Christians to know why they are not. Being in Romania surrounded by so much darkness has led me to be tested in this and made me aware that I know far too little about why I am secure in my salvation.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith.” -Ephesians 2:8 

So, in conclusion, being a Christian means knowing you are unable to break free of sin on earth, understanding that His grace covers you, having faith in what is not seen, and trading your religion for a relationship. 

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” -Hebrews 11:1