mountains and rocks

If Christ Jesus returned today and we had to face judgment tonight how would you feel about it?

I believe that there are four ways that people feel about it. I believe a large group of people would be scared. Now these people have given their lives to Christ and they believe but they don't think they have done enough things right. I would've fallen into that group a few years back.

I believe there is another large sized group of people who just don't care. They don't care because they don't believe. They don't care because they think that the way they have lived their lives is good enough and they don't need God and eternal life.

The third group is excited and know that they will be in heaven someday, there are just some things that they want to do on earth before that day comes. I will be transparent with you. This is the group that I am in. I have no doubt that when I die I will go to heaven. I long to hear the words..."well done, good and faithful servant." But there are parts of me that are stuck on things that I want to experience on earth first. I want to get married. I want to have kids. Go on some more trips, etc.

Finally, you have the group of people who can't wait. If they could go to heaven right now, they would leave everything and do it. Nothing is more important to them than being in heaven with our Lord forever.

Which camp do you fall into? For me. I want to fall into that fourth camp. The group that would totally be okay with going to heaven this very second. I want to have that type of faith in Jesus and understanding in knowing that everything we will feel in heaven doesn't even come close to those earthly feelings and things that I still want to be able to do. I want to know and understand that everything we will feel in heaven is not even comparable to the best feelings that we have felt from this life on earth.

"Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the nighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid is caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the earth of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?" 
(Revelation 6:15-17)

At the sight of God sitting on the throne, all human beings great and small, will be terrified, calling for mountains to fall on them so that they will not have to face judgment.

This isn't meant to frighten believers. For believers, the Lamb is a gentle Savior.

But for those who showed no fear of God and arrogantly flaunted their unbelief will find that they were wrong, and in that day they will have to face God's wrath.

No one who has rejected God can survive the day of his wrath, but those who belong to Christ will receive an award rather than punishment.

If you belong to Christ, you have no need to fear these final days.

I challenge you to ask yourself this question. 'Do I belong to Christ?'

If you really do, we should never fear the day of judgment and we should have no part of us that isn't ready to go to heaven yet. I believe that there is only one acceptable reason to still want to be on earth, and that is to share the love of Christ and to witness to as many as people as possible before that day comes.

My hope for you is that you have peace in your heart about this topic. My prayer is that you understand that you belong to Christ and that you never want to be in as spot where you think you have to hide.