Billions have already experienced their blip. Relative after relative, friends, neighbors. They all had their blips. Now, at least to us, they are only memories. Soon, we too shall be memories. The stream of time moves on.
Right now, RIGHT NOW we still have the opportunity to get it right, to grow into that personality our Creator always intended us to be. But we only have NOW, and some of us still have a lot of growing to do. Satan is a liar when he says all we need do is believe Jesus died for us and the best of heaven’s blessings and rewards await every one of us and that we will all be “raptured away” to glory before things really heat up on this planet. Satan lies to Christians just as he lies to Muslims, duping Muslims into thinking if they commit suicide and kill Christians or Jews while committing that act they will instantly go to paradise and enjoy the best paradise has to offer. Scripture warns that Satan deceives THE WHOLE WORLD!!!
The apostle Paul warns that Satan even presents “another Jesus” to the Christian world and that many receive “another spirit,” thinking they have placed their faith in the real Jesus Christ and have been given the real Holy Spirit. Paul even speaks of a false gospel, false brethren and false ministers! (See 2 Corinthians 11).
Yet the real Jesus said, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth much fruit, and that your fruit should remain (be constant, day in and day out), that WHATSOEVER you shall ask of the Father in my name (including healing from some illness or disease), He may give it to you” (John 15:16).
He also said, “You are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:19). The truly converted realize that they are pilgrims, sojourners, wayfarers, aliens in this present evil world. They realize their real citizenship is in heaven, not on this earth.
The real Jesus stated that when men and women received the real Holy Spirit they would be guided into all spiritual truth and would have Bible prophecy opened to their understanding. (See John 16:13).
The Apostle Paul exhorted all professing Christians to “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith (whether you have truly been converted and have God’s powerful Holy Spirit abiding in you), prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is IN you, except ye be reprobates (false converts)?” (See 2 Corinthians 13:5). Is it obvious Jesus Christ is expressing Himself through YOU?
Multitudes of professing Christians are going to open their eyes at their resurrection only to have it dawn on them that instead of being incorruptible, immortal spirit beings they are still mere human beings composed of flesh brought back to life to stand in the judgment of the unconverted. I can’t begin to imagine what mind-numbing fear will grip their hearts and fill their minds at that moment.
Life’s little day will draw to its close a lot sooner than most think. While we yet live and breathe we have the marvelous opportunity to really get it right, to really and truly find ourselves being conformed to the image of our Lord and Savior whereby we can in confidence at last say to our Creator, “Alright, Lord, I am ready for my close up!”
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley