The Way of The Cross Leads Home

 Happy Saturday morning! And more importantly, Happy Easter!

I truly hope that when you hear the word Easter, bunnies and eggs are not the first thing that pop in your head. Hopefully it is a cross, an empty cross.

Sorry I was gone a couple of weeks,  I had told myself I wasn't going to be a slave to the blog and so I give myself permission to take a week off now and then. I did that two weeks ago and then last week, I was in Missouri for Andrew's cousin's funeral. Last week was suppose to be the weight loss week but it will have to wait. With Easter here, I have to talk Christ today.

We have had revival this week and it has been glorious! I know people who aren't believers cannot understand why we would go sit for three nights in a row listening to preaching about our Savior but for believers, it is a spa treatment for the soul. We always hope and pray that someone might come that doesn't know the Lord and they could get to but most of the time, revival is just that, reviving the Spirit in those of us who believe.

This week didn't disappoint. I will tell you, when I was a young teen, we would have two week revivals and I loved it! It is great to surround yourself with believers. It feels good, and right.

One of our preachers this week mentioned several times about  the old song, The Way of the Cross Leads Home. And that is one of the many things that has stuck in my mind.

The only way to get to spend eternity in Heaven is if you have personally accepted Christ as your Savior, there is no other way. Being a "good person" doesn't cut it, I hate to tell you this, but there are good people in Hell because God made a way for us to go to Heaven and if you don't take it, you don't go to Heaven. 

I was at one of our senior centers this week and was overhearing an older man and woman visiting. The woman was telling about having a dream and the angel Gabriel was standing at the end of her bed. He told her he needed to show her something. The next she knew she was standing in front of truly a lake of fire and up out of it came her father-in-law. He screamed to her, "Don't let my boys burn." It shook her so very badly but she started working harder on making her husband and brother-in-law understand Salvation. 

I was looking for the verses to describe hell and ran across this very short Q&A from billygraham,org, I think this answers that question perfectly.

Q:

I know people ask you from time to time what you think heaven is like, but I'd also be interested to know what you think hell will be like. I have a friend who says he's looking forward to hell, because all his friends will be there and they'll have one big party. He's not right, is he?

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A:

No, he certainly isn’t right. If he could have only a brief glimpse—even just a tenth of a second’s look—at what hell is like, he’d never say again that he looks forward to going there.

Not one word in the Bible suggests that hell is a pleasant place, or a place where anyone would ever want to go. Jesus called hell a place of “outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 25:30, KJV). In one of His parables, Jesus told of a man who was in hell, begging for someone to come and “cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire” (Luke 16:24). The only companions anyone will have in hell will be “the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41).

There is much we don’t know about hell—but we know all we need to know. And the most important thing we know about hell is that we don’t have to go there! Yes, we have sinned, and we deserve only God’s judgment. But God loves us, and Christ came to deliver us from hell and welcome us into heaven forever.

Don’t take hell lightly—but don’t take Christ lightly, either. Instead, by a simple prayer of faith ask Him to forgive your sins and come into your life today. The Bible’s promise is true: “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).

I have heard so many people say it doesn't matter where they go, they will know people either way. Friendship is a form of love, love is from God, there will be no friends in Hell.

So, tomorrow is Easter, it falls in the Spring, that perfect time of renewing, fresh cut grass, spring cleaning. I always think it is a second chance at a new beginning after the New Year. Isn't it time for your second chance on life to start? Accepting the fact that you were supposed to die on that cross, and GO TO HELL because of the things you have done. And please understand, sin is sin. You being mad and mouthing off to someone because they cut you off in traffic is sin. You losing your temper and slamming the phone down on a phone call that upset you is sin. You driving 56 mph in a 55 is sin. You telling someone you were busy doing this or that and couldn't come over when they asked  when you really just didn't want to go, is sin. God doesn't qualify sin. Humans do. We think that murder is sin but telling "a little white lie" isn't., That is 100% wrong. 

If you are feeling moved by your sin, ask Christ to save you, then, and here is the rest of the story..... start living your life for someone who gave His life for you. How would you feel if you were crossing the street and someone  realized there was a semi coming that you didn't see? As you were crossing the street, someone comes running up and pushes you out of the way, consequently, they died. They died because you weren't paying attention and walked into danger without even realizing it. Christ went to a cross and died for you, just like that person ran in front of a truck. That person had done nothing wrong but was trying to save you. Christ was sinless, but yet he died so we had an opportunity to go to Heaven. It isn't automatic though, you have to accept it and you have to live for Him.

I am leaving you with the song, The Way of the Cross Leads Home.

Happy Easter, my Christians friends, He is risen indeed, that is what makes Christ our Savior. He conquered death for us. To those unbelievers that are reading this, this could be the first day of the rest of your life. God didn't promise rainbows and butterflies in this life but once you have Jesus, you do realize you are never alone in what you are going through and there is truly a peace that passes understanding even when things don't go your way. If you need to talk about this more, message me here, or contact me on messenger on Facebook, I would truly be honored to tell you more about my Jesus.