The New Year of 2026 had barely begun. Then came the shocking news from the Swiss Alps that 40 people lost their lives in a horrific fire in a popular nightclub. . It gave me pause to ponder the fact that we never know when or how our earthly journey will end. It's a sobering thought that our lives are so fragile. Do these tragic events give you pause to think about the next part of your journey? For me it does. When we die we are not taking anything with us:Not a degree! Not a job! Not one award, No Money! No Cars! No jewels or furs! No spouses or children! No titles! No food! No Drugs! No disabilities! Everything to do with this body is staying here on earth. We have evidence that the ancient Pharaohs tried to take their wealth with them. Today we call their attempts antiquities and we view those items in museums.
All those things that we sweat and labor over are going to be left on earth. Earthly troubles, trials and solutions are going to be left behind too. Thank goodness! All the things that entertain us are left here. Since all these things are going to be left behind I ask why do we put all our energy into them?
It should be plain to us that there is something else going on with us other than what adorns us or occupies our time. Since we can all observe that nothing goes with a person when that person dies it should make us stop and think. Steve Jobs died and all his wealth stayed here. Paul Allen died and his billions of dollars, sports teams and property stayed here. Steve Brotman died and he couldn’t take one thing from Costco with him.
Follow me. According to the Bible there is an eternity after death. Therefore should we not concentrate on the greater part of our journey of what comes next? Maybe you are an annilhilationist you say nothing comes next. This is all there is. If so then one may do what one wants in this lifetime with no repercussions or consequences.
That means I don’t need a social contract with you or with God. I am free to do whatever I want. If I want to kill you I can do so. No problem. The state may put me to death in return for my killing someone else. So what, I won’t know about it anyway because I’m gone. I just ceased to exist sooner than I was going to cease to exist anyway. Insert any other thing into this paragraph. If there is nothing after this life we can all be free to act without boundaries, live how we want, violate you anyway I want. What’s the worse thing you can do to me anyway except to kill me. Again you just hasten me to nothing which I will not know about anyway.
I don’t know about you, but this annihilationist view just does not make sense to me.
Then there are the variations of reincarnation theories. That we are going to come back again and again until we reach this supposed perfected state. Well I can’t reconcile this to science. If one egg and one sperm make one unique individual how is this possible? How can two different humans living at different times make uniquely you all over again. How is the same dna replicated in two totally different people or insects or animals to form a “cognizant I remember being here before person” over and over again? I cannot get with that program either.The reincarnation view does not make sense to me either.
The view that makes sense to me is this one. There is a God who is ruler over all. According to this God’s Divine will God created us humans. I start with the premise that God is infinite and knows all things and is neither bound by human limitations. God knew that when He created us that we were going to have problems. How did God know this? God had seen it before he created humans. One of God's previously created beings, Lucifer, Satan, had tried to take the Creator down. Therefore if this usurper tried to dethrone the Infinite God he is not scared to try and take another created being, a human, down.
In fact this impostor, named Satan, Lucifer, the Devil was so persuasive he was able to convince one third of the heavenly beings, angels, in his environment to join him. Well that didn’t work out for him? God ejected Lucifer and his followers from Heaven. They were never able to go back. Well Lucifer wasn’t going to be happy with his little tribe. When Lucifer aka Satan saw that God had created some other beings on a planet called earth, he went into recruiting mode.
This impostor, Lucifer, didn’t go for a direct attack He used the art of deflection and deception to get to Eve, We know the story of how she took and ate the forbidden fruit Satan told Eve that God was withholding some great truth from her. Lucifer told Eve she could discover this truth herself by eating fruit from the forbidden tree. The Bible said that Eve was deceived. Adam, the primary person who heard the instructions directly from God, saw right through the ploy. However Adam decided he’d take up the offer of the impostor knowing that it was not right.
God knew all this would take place-afterall He is God. Like the greatest chess master, no disrespect to God, He saw way down the road. God had a plan. That Plan was God/Jesus. He was going to take the penalty and consequence for Adam who was willful and Eve who was deceived otherwise we would be kicked out of God’s family forever. If God had not had a plan we would have had to live with the impostor wherever he was going to live. I hate to bring it up, but that place is called Hell.
I am glad I have been given the privilege to live with God. I have embraced God’s plan by accepting the fact that God/Jesus paid the penalty on the cross for me , I accept Jesus Christ's generous offer and acknowledge that He is the only way to God.
Now this makes sense to me.
Jesus said I am the way the truth and the Life.
No man comes to the Father but by me.
John 14:6
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