Your soul is required of you

Now to the one who works​, his wage is not credited as a favour, but as what is due. - Romans 4:4

This is an experiential reality. We need ​an income to meet our daily needs. When we are employed by someone​ we get paid to complete certain tasks in a set time. Some try to impress their employers to be in their good books or to get a promotion or to show that they are better than others. Many do this to become rich, or to give their children a better future ​and ​the list goes on. But these things are temporal. And we strive hard to achieve what is temporal. Despite knowing that, we run after these things. When we die, we leave everything behind. As difficult as it may sound but this is the reality. It is like the rich man of Luke 12 who said, “And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'”

And if we are working hard for that which is temporal - my question is - what are we doing for that which is eternal? Are we like the rich man of Luke 12, seeking security in what we have and not concerned about eternity? Is it possible that we are committing the same mistake? Are we really thinking about our eternal future? Or do we think that we will live as we want for now and maybe some other time, we will think about God? Maybe we will go to church regularly at that time. We will help others a bit more than we already do. We will give a bit more. We assume that by doing those things we will attain eternal life. This is the thinking that plagues many but nowhere does it say in the Bible that by doing this we will inherit eternal life.

We can't inherit eternal life by our works but by accepting Christ and by believing in Him and Him alone; by living a holy life; by doing the will of the Father and by making sure that our lives ​are​ pleasing to the Father and by doing that we glorify Him and Him alone. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 7:21)

So what is the will of the Father? God the Father does not want anyone to perish, but that all should repent. His will is that everyone who believes in His Son will have eternal life.This is why He sent His one and only Son so that we may have eternal life.

Are you ready therefore to have this eternal life? Jesus has said in John 6:37, “Whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” So the choice is in your hands: Repent of your sins and have eternal life in heaven with God or live a life not pleasing to the Lord and lose eternal life. What will you choose?

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