The very best birthday present that anyone could get is the gift of faith. There is no downside to coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, and there is an unbelievable upside. I wouldn’t have believed this before 2004, but after having experienced the joy and help since accepting Jesus’ invitation that He extends to everyone, I am a dedicated believer. I have received much personal fulfillment since. Do you have something that gives total fulfillment in your life? Reading the wonderful book “Heaven Is So Real” by Choo Thomas brought me to Jesus.
Earlier in my life I didn’t think I needed God, but after beginning to recount my blessings I realized that they weren’t my doing. Achievements in life came because of God’s interventions with His wonderful Grace. The only recognition that I want today is from God. Having the help from my wonderful wife Anita for more than 60 years was also responsible for our good life.
But I was advised by several reviewers of an earlier draft, that some people are impressed with worldly achievement, so here goes. For fifteen years I was President and CEO of a fairly large public company. I eventually became head of nearly every organization with which I was involved including a Red Cross chapter board, a country club board, several smaller companies, and editor of a community newsletter. I was sought out for computer advice for many years and was a consultant in software for two chains of computer stores.
Three computer stores were owned. My investments in public corporations over the years were very successful. But by failing to seek God’s advice, I made some serious private investment mistakes; losing $1.6 million, which fortunately I could afford. As a private pilot I owned a number of different airplanes. Over 400,000 miles were logged for business and pleasure. I had some amusing experiences while flying all over Mexico and the Caribbean. I was able to travel to many countries and visited every state and all but one Canadian Province. I know now that God protected me and gave me all of this by His Grace. I did not deserve any of it.
After I started praying to thank Him for the good life, good health and all our good life, blessings multiplied. But I still hadn’t realized the importance of Jesus Christ to my life.
Finally, I realized that there are far more important things than our life on earth. In my childhood I had learned that my real self is my soul and not my body. I remembered the prayer that my mother taught me, “Now I lay me down to sleep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
We are not bodies with just a mind and pulse, our real self is the soul and spirit that is in our body. 1Thes 5:23 The soul existed before we were born to this earth and will live forever. Our soul will remember everything that has happened to us on earth and will experience whatever happens to us after death. After our body dies, our soul has only one of two places to go - to be with God in Heaven in a renewed body, or with Satan and the eternal tortures in hell.
In most of my life I gave little thought to hell. Perhaps I thought, like many, that death is the end. To believe this is a tragedy beyond measure for a person’s eternal life. To follow Jesus gives the greatest sense of security that is imaginable. Matthew 10:28 What else is there that gives you the sense of security to face unknowns?
The only truly reliable guide for living is and always has been the Word of God that is in the Bible. 1Tim 3:15-16 Everything that you need to know about an abundant life is in this book. It is God’s message to the world. The Bible tells us that God is love, and the Bible has much to say about love. For example: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-9 We love because He first loved us. 1 John 4:18-20
In the Bible, Jesus Christ teaches that the only way to be with God after earthly life is through Him, Jesus Christ, John 14:6. You cannot go to Heaven by just being a good person; you must accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and confess to Him that you are a sinner. We all are even if our sin is valuing something or someone more than a relationship with God. Then confess your sin, ask for forgiveness, and try to live as you believe Jesus wants you to live.
No matter what we have done, it will be forgiven if we ask. 1John 1:7 That is all there really is to being saved. Although you can continue to enjoy your life, even to a greater degree, you will find that you will lose interest in some things that you thought were important. The Holy Spirit who is available to help you will show you many other things that you will love to do.
There are some things though that will greatly enhance your faith experience; one especially is reading the Bible. I thought that the Bible would be boring, but it is not. Many of the books in the Bible are as exciting as a good novel but are true. Psalm 119:103
Going to church is not necessary for first coming to faith, although it could hasten it. But if you go, you will meet people who will help strengthen your faith. Others may have faced trials much like your own. How do you now deal with some of the unknowns in your life? Could you use some help at times? I always thought that I was self-sufficient and could handle my own problems. While this was true to a point, I have found it far easier with the help of the Lord, and talking with other believers. Hebrews 10:25
Even today it is still hard for me to believe all the help I get from the Lord and the Holy Spirit. He helps me every day and I only have to ask. John 14:13 When something happens that I can’t seem to grasp or solve, I just ask for help. When a heavy burden comes, and it does to me in spite of all our apparent outward “success”, I just put the burden on the Lord. Matthew 11:28
The result is that, and it is often immediate, I receive peace and have the knowledge that the problem will be solved in the best possible manner. John 14:27 I don’t stop working on it, but I know there will be help. There is no downside to faith, and a landslide of advantages.
Could you use a little help at times? If you want to talk about this sometime, it will be my pleasure. Just send an email with your name. Jesus doesn’t want to see anyone following Satan into his inferno. John 10:10 Heaven and hell are very real!
In very recent times Lord Jesus raised up a modern-day prophet, trained her and took her to Heaven and hell. He commanded her to write a book on everything she was shown. This book is His final appeal to get ready for His coming for His faithful ones. The book “Heaven Is So Real” by Choo Thomas, quickly became a world-wide best seller in many languages. Please check the author’s website http://www.choothomas.com/. Several of my own testimonies on salvation are found by clicking on “How To Be Saved” near the top of the first page, starting with the second article. Check out other features of Choo’s website under Resources and Urgent Messages. On https://www.divinerevelations.info/ there is much additional information.
Choo has become a wonderful friend and I talk to her frequently. Jesus has given her many visions of His soon coming. A few weeks ago Choo said that Jesus had shown her new visions that He will be coming very, very soon for his faithful to take them to Heaven. More recently He told her that there would be no more visions as His coming is too soon. Be Ready!!! The eternal life you save will be your own. Tell your family and friends.
If you are already way ahead of me in your faith and don’t feel that you need this message, that is wonderful. Please then pass this information to someone whom you believe can use it.
I know that I am nobody special, just a servant of the Lord. But I plead with all whom have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, not to wait another day. No one knows when their last day will come!