Abundant Life

Good morning!

The amazing love of God draws us into relationship with Him.

“Behold, I’m standing at the door, knocking. If your heart is open to hear My voice and you open the door within, I will come in to you and feast with you, and you will feast with Me. And to the one who conquers I will give the privilege of sitting with me on My throne, just as I conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne.” Revelation 3:20-21 TPT

It is fascinating to me why people would reject this offer. I realize there is disbelief that this could really be true or that it could be this “easy.”

When people say that a good God wouldn’t send someone to hell, I know that they are seeing things from a human aspect. However, if heaven is being with God and that is His dwelling place and He says the way to enter His “home” is to open the door to Him and we choose not to do that, well, then we have by default rejected being with Him. He did not reject being with us.

Hell is eternal separation from God and that will be sheer torture.

Maybe a person thinks that one day they will get their lives together enough to choose God but many people die before they get that opportunity. Maybe a person thinks they will just be “asleep” or that they won’t feel anything when they die. So, in other words, maybe heaven and hell aren’t even something they think exist and so there isn’t any fear.

From my viewpoint, there is a reason that any one of us has any love at all in us when we see how evil the world is. God made us in His image. We choose whether to accept Him or reject Him but it is our free will.

There is another tragedy that I think is a huge restriction and that is the vast majority of people who may be Christians but are only saved for heaven but living a version of hell on earth. That is not what Jesus came for. He wants us to live with hope and joy even with all that is going on. Does that even seem possible? It surely is.

Quite honestly, I am thinking of deleting this whole message and starting over because it sounds like I’m up above and emotionally superior and I’m not. I am just pouring out my thoughts at the moment.

Come what may, I pray for a heart that never loses sight of what Jesus came for:

John 10:10b, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

"More abundantly" means to have a superabundance of a thing. "Abundant life" refers to life in its abounding fullness of joy and strength for spirit, soul and body.