I'm currently reading the "Left Behind" series. And I love it! But the books really get you wondering, "What would happen if the rapture were to happen right now?" But we push the idea from our head right? It's ridiculous, it won't happen right now. It can't; I have my whole life ahead of me.
If you start thinking like that, you're heading into a dangerous place. Maybe you think like that because you are young, but that brings us to the issue: How old are you when you can't get into heaven free anymore?
Well, first of all, I believe that except for babies and young children, no one gets into to heaven free.
(The Rapture is the concept of God taking all the believers and real Christians to heaven, all material is left behind. But the non-believers stay on earth until the 7 year treaty is signed, and the last 7 years the planet will ever see begins.)
It is right around the time of late preteens-early teens, when getting serious about your walk with God is really important. There is no specific you-can't-get-into-heaven-free-anymore-because-you-are-this-age rule. It is all about innocence. Once you learn the importance about believing in Jesus, you are all set to take on a life-long responsibility.
Now, I don't have to worry about being left behind, I love the Lord with all my heart. That's why it's my job to help others to Christ. I do what I can to help others with that. But it's difficult when others don't care. Either they don't know anything about God, or they don't want to be involved because Christians around them are so mean.
Which brings us to another problem. Christians think they are so right, that they can force non-believers into loving God. But most of the time, the non-believers are pushed away from the truth because that reason itself.
Back to the Rapture, the Rapture used to scare me a lot. It scared my sister, too. Sometimes, just to scare each other, we would try to trick each other by changing our clothes when the other was out of the room, lay our others clothes on the ground neatly (as if we were "taken up but our clothes were left behind"), and hide.
It never worked.
But there was one time when I really believed I had been left behind. Then I would see my mother and father around me. If the Rapture had happened, they would have been taken too.
Now, I have no worries about not getting into heaven. And I can't wait until that day comes, but now that I'm secure and confident, I need to help my friends and my younger siblings to my position as well. And I have no doubt that we will all walk together in Christ.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Your posts are awesome. I too am reading the Left Behind series. They are great books.
I am also trying to reach my friends. I don't want them to be ignorant of the truth or just not care. I think that it's that they don't want to face the truth. I notice that they may get uncomfortable when I talk to them about it.
I do think you have a point about Christians always thinking they're right. I think we sometimes try to shove things in people's faces. I do, however, think that we shouldn't respect other's ignorance, and we shouldn't be polite all the time. If not being polite and not respectful is what it takes to reach them, we should do it. We shouldn't just let them die.
But again, great posts. :)
Post a Comment