The Choice

At the end of your life, after you have breathed your last and your soul has left your body, if you had a choice, which would you chose? Heaven or Hell?

There isn’t a choice of course. When you die, that is it. There is no choice once you are dead.

While you are alive there is a choice. You can choose to believe or you can choose not to believe.

Of course, as Christians we know there is more than just belief. There is how you believe, how you live your faith, how you treat your fellow man, and, more importantly, how you treat God. And so much more.

But some people choose the alternative. They choose not to believe. They call themselves atheists or agnostics or whatever they want to call themselves. But they choose to believe that God does not exist because for them, God does not exist. They don’t get it; either by how they were raised, by events that happened to them, by not getting the answers they think they need or by just being plain stubborn. They can’t see God, feel God and/or know God. Not that they try or maybe they did but they let things destroy their faith or they were never introduced to any kind of faith whatsoever. Either way it happens, they now, as adults, choose not to believe in God.

This is what I don’t understand. People who have been introduced to God, who have been raised in a faithful environment, but then, as adults choose not to believe. What is up with that???

The choice is this. Heaven or Hell.

What do you think about when I say “heaven”? Does anything bad or negative come to mind when you hear the word “heaven”?

For me, it is safe, calm, peaceful, beautiful, wonderful; full of love, joy, happiness, music, wonderments beyond our imaginations. It is living inside pure contentment. It is living inside pure joy. It is living inside LOVE.

How exactly is that a bad thing????

What do you think about when I say “hell”? Does anything good or positive come to mind when you hear the word “hell”?

For me it is pain, anguish and suffering; full of sorrow, sadness, darkness beyond our imaginations. It is living inside constant fear. Living inside constant despair. Living inside constant death.

How exactly is that a good thing????

So, since you have a choice in life, why would you choose hell over heaven? Why would you choose the path that guarantees you will never get to heaven? Why would you choose NOT to believe?

It seems to me the logical and sensible choice, if you want to be scientific about it, is to choose the path of life that will lead to the most wonderful ending. You should want to explore the way that will get you to spend eternity in pure love rather than pure death. You would want to do everything you can to have faith. If what you are doing now is not leading to a life of faith, you should do something else. Explore, talk to people, investigate, learn, develop…do something that will end up making you beyond belief happy in the long run.

Why, oh why, would you deliberately choose the alternative? Why would you be so cavalier about eternity? Why would you do that?

I understand questioning your faith. I understand questioning God. The world is a confusing place. There is a lot to distract you, lead you astray, and lead you down the wrong path. I have seen it. I have experienced it. Been there, done that. But through it all…all the searching for answers, searching for what I believed, searching for what my faith means….I always chose to believe. My faith was always there. I never discarded it. Because, for me, choosing the alternative is just plain foolishness.

So where are you at? Have you chosen? Which is it? Heaven or Hell?