The Bible On Trial

We are not guaranteed our next breath! 

This past week a good friend of my family had a massive MI (heart attack). He is in his early 40's. Peter came home from an exercise session, and when Jollet saw him she KNEW he was in trouble. She called an ambulance, that came an collected him, and took him to the same hospital where in years past I had two interventions in the Heart Cath Lab. He was saved by a wonderful medical team, that placed a stent in his left descending coronary artery (widow-maker), and three days later is at home resting and in recovery. He came close to dying, very close indeed! Listening to Jollet describe this situation brings to mind how fragile our lives are, and reminds me that eternity is a mere breath away.

What will that eterninty look like for all of us, when the time comes for our 'transition'? How does what we believe affect which side of eternity we are on? The idea that we can just leave our ultimate future to the chance that what we believe to be true IS NOT, is more than most people want to contemplate. Yet, WHAT we believe and HOW we believe actually matters in WHERE and WHAT we experience after our transition. And even if you believe that life does not exist beyond our current life, is it not incumbent upon us to live as honestly as we can while we share this life with the world?

Self-honesty is the true key to a happy, joyful and productive life, because TRUTH matters. The search for truth is the best gift we can give ourselves, because it shapes every relationship we have with everyone we care about. When we find a part of that TRUTH, the big picture especially about salvation and eternal life, it is truly good for our hear/intellectt-that part of us that will last for eternity. Making time for the search for truth is critically important both here in this realm, and in the realm to come.

Truth, no matter what!