What Is Your Future?

Everywhere I go I pass places offering psychic readings of your future. These places are wicked and God condemns them, but sometimes I feel sorry for them because I know their future. The thought has crossed my mind to go up to one and tell them their future - even for free.

I see a Great White Throne and God is sitting on the throne. Billions of people are gathered around as you stand before the Throne. The books are opened as God searches for your name. Your name is not there. You fall down before the holy God, begging and pleading with Him because you realize what it means to not have your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life. You will worship Him and claim to have done many things for Him. But He will reply, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you worker of lawlessness. Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."

Revelation 20:11-15; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 25:31-33,41-46

Now you can't see anything, just utter darkness.You can't even see your hand in front of your face. But it is so hot! You hear the roar of unquenchable flames. You feel unbearable pain as the flames engulf your entire body, yet it does not consume you. The strong scents of sulfur and brimstone churn your stomach and burn your eyes. Your tongue is swollen and your voice hoarse as you cry out for a drop of water to ease your unquenchable thirst. Worms crawl all over your body. Your voice joins billions of others in the wailing and gnashing of teeth against the anguish and torment. You are filled with despair and hopelessness. One thought haunts you for all eternity: "Why didn't I trust Jesus as my Savior when I had a chance?" You know that all believers are in paradise with God and you are stuck here in the Lake of Fire for all eternity. This is your eternal punishment for rejecting God. This is your future. This is the second death.

This is not my prediction of the future; it is God's. It is the future of everyone who rejects Him by not putting their faith and trust in Jesus Christ to save them.

Outer or utter darkness: Matthew 8:12; 22:13; 25:30; 2 Peter 2:17; Jude 1:13
Eternal unquenchable fire: Isaiah 66:24; Matthew 3:12; 25:41; Mark 9:43,44,48; Jude 1:7
Sulfur and brimstone: Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 21:8
Unquenchable thirst: Luke 16:24
Worms that shall not die: Isaiah 66:24; Mark 9:48
Weeping or wailing and gnashing of teeth; anguish; torment: Matthew 8:12; 13:42; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30; Luke 13:28; 16:23-25,28; Revelation 20:10

I do not wish that future on anyone. Praise the Lord, you get to choose your future! God doesn't wish that future on anyone either. You don't have to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. If you would rather spend eternity in heaven with God, all you have to do is believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay for your sins then rose again three days later; repent of your sins and ask Jesus to save you. If you would like to find out how to do that, click on the link to the right, Beauty of the Heart, then the top link, Beauty in Living for God.

Since I put my faith and trust in Jesus as my Savior, I have a different future; one that I am looking forward to. I am a child of God; the bride of Christ; and I will spend eternity in God's presence, praising Him, worshipping Him, and fellowshipping with Him. It is the future you can have too. The choice is yours. Keep in mind as you make your decision that salvation is not a 'fire escape'. Your motive for getting saved should not be to escape hell, but to have a personal relationship with God. Which future do you choose?