Trying to Reboot

    What do you do when your computer starts acting funny? By that, I mean a certain program will not open or a feature of the program will not function as it should. The other day, my computer started locking up on certain programs. A screen would come up the printing would say, “cannot connect to the internet.” I looked at my connection page and all was normal so I did what I often do in such occasions. I clicked on the power button and then clicked on “restart.” In a matter of a couple of minutes, I was back up and began the preceding process again and it worked fine. They used to say, “close windows and open it up again.” It seems to fix a number of computer problems. Maybe all of the “ones” and “zeroes” need to be put back in their proper place. Wouldn't it be nice if life was like that? You might ask your associate or child or whatever to do something and they look at your with a dumb expression and don't move a muscle. In the computer world, you could just hit the restart button and everything would go back to normal. We all know that life isn't that way. Revelation 20:15 says, "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." 

           There must be a lot of people who think that there is not going to be any judgment at all and that all people will eventually go to a blissful eternity. Those are the people who think that if their name is not written in the Book of Life at the judgment time, just close it and reopen it and you will find your name written there. That's when a person who is standing in front of God and trying to come up with every reason possible why they should be going into heaven, begins to worry and tries to come up with every excuse possible hoping that something will change God's mind and let them in. They will try to come up with every time they gave a dime to the Christmas bell ringer or every compliment they every paid someone else. Unfortunately, the words from Matthew's Gospel will be, "...depart from Me, I never knew you." There is no such thing as closing the book of life and then reopening it and your name appearing there in a magical way. Oh, every act that you ever did will be recorded in the "books" but none of them will be sufficient to let you into heaven. Unfortunately, a lot of church people who are members of a local church somewhere will be standing there in that place of judgment. Life is not one of the things that can be "rebooted" like a computer. There is a time however when a change can take place that will put you on the right track. Second Corinthians 5:17 says, " Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." You have a whole lifetime, some 70 or 80 years to make this choice. You don't have to do it but the results will be eternal no matter what choice you make. You can't pass from this life and then try to reboot and make everything right. It will be too late and it doesn't work that way. You can put yourself in the scene in John 3 when Nicodemus came to Christ at night to inquire of Him and Jesus simply said that He must be born again. He explained it on further down in the chapter. If you have the Son, you have life. If you don't have the Son, you do not have life. It is as simple as that. Praise God today that He gives us eternal life through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.