How will you get to heaven?

The Lord reminded me today of my own road to Salvation - and this sort of 'fell out' of my musings

John 14:6
"Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me."

If you ask any group of people if they believe in heaven, the majority will say yes.

If you ask the same group if they believe in hell, many will say no.

If you ask them “How do you get to heaven?” the answers are very varied. Here’s a few :-

• By being a good person
• By being kind – giving to charity
• By helping others
• Living a clean life
• Being well liked and loved
• Always positive & cheerful
• By believing in God
• By going to church
• By prayer

Ask them about a personal relationship with Jesus or being ‘born again’ and they may well look at you as if you are mad. So lets look at those reasons again and maybe apply some of Gods perspective to this.

• By being a good person – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Many people are good and kind who are complete atheists, who do not even believe in God. Kindness is not uniquely a Christian trait.

• By being kind – giving to charity – This doesn’t get you into heaven. If this were a way into heaven, then every Buddhist would be there.

• By helping others – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Again many people help others, give to charity, help old ladies across the street and so on.

• Living a clean life – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Very many people try to live a clean life but many don’t believe in God.

• Being well liked and loved – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Popularity doesn’t rate as highly with God as it does with man.

• Always positive & cheerful – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Another try but still wrong. Many people are great optimists – live very positively and very happily without going anywhere near a church or the Bible.

• By believing in God – This doesn’t get you into heaven either; although even Satan believes in God – so do all his demons.

• By reading the Bible – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Satan reads & knows the Bible better than you or I will ever know it. He quotes it to us daily.

• By going to church – This doesn’t get you into heaven. Big fallacy this one. Even Satan comes to church – if only to see who he can divert from God. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to MacDonalds makes you a hamburger.

• By prayer – This doesn’t get you into heaven – if it did, nearly every person in the world prays at one time or another. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, virtually every tribe and tongue prays to something or someone at sometime or other.

So, where does that leave us?

The Word of God says in John 3 v 16&17 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

Gods son is called Jesus and He said this :- “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.” John 14:6
The ONLY way into heaven is through a personal relationship with Jesus.

So – do you want to get to heaven. Do you have the right relationship with Jesus.

Remember that you might even die tonight. Where will you end up – in heaven or in hell? Time for us all to “choose this day whom you will serve...... as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."