Thursday, April 3, 2008 from www.Heaven4Sure.com
A Home You Can't Lose
You can miss it but you can’t lose it. To miss it is to never have it. But to lose it means you once had it.
There are some heart-wrenching stories coming out of the United States
just now about home owners who are losing their homes. Families are
losing their homes by the thousands. Foreclosures are rampant. Some
have labeled it the ‘foreclosure epidemic’. It is estimated that 1.2
million families across the country are in the process of losing their
homes. People can’t make their mortgage payments and banks can’t wait
any longer.
Have you ever lost your home? Do you know what it’s like to empty out your 
cupboards
and fridge, pack your pictures, wall hangings, furniture, clothes and
kids toys – not because you want to but because you have to? Do you
know what it is like to break that kind of news to your kids? Have you
ever ‘had’ to do the final sweep of your home and then get in your
packed car and drive away for the last time blinking the tears away?
Those
who have lost their homes speak of the shame and embarrassment of
having to break the news to their family and neighbors. They talk about
seeing their lives crumbling all around them and their dreams
evaporating as they move in with relatives or into apartments.
Perhaps
you can’t relate to the disappointment and embarrassment because you
don’t own a home yet. But to lose a home means you once had it.
The reality is we can lose our earthly homes – but there is a home you can NOT lose. You can miss it but you can’t lose it.
H E A V E N
To
lose your home on earth is the result of your own inability to make the
payments. But anyone who has a home in Heaven is not depending on their
own payments or hard work. The price for you to have a home in Heaven
was paid in full by Jesus Christ, when He died on the Cross. That’s why
He was there – so sinners could look forward to an eternal home in
Heaven.
Our
debt of sin was huge but Christ suffered and died to satisfy all that
was outstanding against us on God’s books. (Romans 5:6,8) He paid our
sin debt in full to secure us a home in Heaven. (1Peter 2:24 and 3:18)
Based on what Christ did for you on the Cross, God now offers you a
free home in Heaven as a pure gift for you to either accept or turn down.
On earth, homeowners not only have to worry about how to arrange finances to purchase a home, but how to pay for maintaining
the home on the long term. That’s not the case with the heavenly home.
We don’t pay the purchase price nor do we pay the long term costs of
maintaining it. Christ paid it all. He secured it with His Blood and
Heaven is a package offer from God that depends completely on the
sufficiency of Christ – not our own ability. God offers you eternal
life with Him forever – as a free gift. Once you have it, you can’t
lose it. Secure for the eternal ages. Incredibly beautiful!
But you can miss it and never have it. A very real danger and the regrets will be eternal.
Read these Bible verses and make your response to God just now.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish
but have (possess) everlasting life (Heaven).”
John 3:16
“The wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life (Heaven)
through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 6:23
Jesus said:
“I give (it’s a gift) unto them eternal life;
and they shall never (never means never!) perish.”
John 10:28
The
forgiveness of sins, eternal life and Heaven is not your’s to earn or
work for – but to simply accept as a free gift from God offered to
people living in their sins.