BEFORE – AFTER
By Rick Mathes
The following is a good overview of an unbeliever. I know it describes my thinking until I received my Lord’s invitation to be saved and accepted it. It might sound like you.
- I will not give up my sins.
- I will not worship an invisible God.
- I will not attend a place of phony worship.
- I really have no love for the man Jesus,
- I will not pray in public.
- I will not do a morning-evening devotional.
- I will not pray in the air to an invisible God.
- I really don’t believe anyone is really saved.
- I will not tithe or make donations to this nonsense.
- I don’t believe He rose from the dead.
- I will not be a hypocrite and fake it.
- I don’t believe in sin, death and the devil.
- I don’t believe the Bible, it was just written by men.
The downside of our pilgrimage on planet earth is that Satan’s kingdom is thriving and for all intents and purposes succeeding to twist the Christian truths with alternative thinking contrary to God’s purposes. The history channel’s Ancient Aliens, UFO’s, visitors from other planets, Nostradamus, the list goes on and one to prove every celestial appearance by provable and repeatable science.
Christianity is not a blind leap of faith nor man’s invention to explain the unexplainable. But unbelief is the easy, most comfortable way out. Jesus was spot-on when He published in His Word, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”
God blessed me to my earliest remembrance as a youth to question “Why?” and “What is truth?” Those two questions have hounded me all of my life even to this moment. I can tell you before God and man, with all the honesty, logic and secular investigation I am capable of, Jesus rose from the dean of His own volition and in His perfect timing!
This is the hinge that will take you from the before to the after if ony you will make it a priority in your studies. You won’t have a second chance. We only pass this way once. There is no room for error!
Before or after, it’s your decision!
Rick Mathes 