Day 132
Yesterday I got my first royalty check from iUniverse for my book, Made for Eternity: Reflections on Time and Timelessness. A whopping $187 and change. I wanted to frame it, but, well, I have loans to pay. There is something special about getting paid, however small the amount, for something you’ve written.
The wonder of the “wow, I’m opening up my first royalty check” moment was tempered by humor in the fact that they mis-spelled my last name. To the publisher, I am Katie Mmorrison. Ah, well. Katie Mmorrison is a published author and Katie Mmorrison is a paid author. She’s got the check to prove it.
Onward.
Last night, Pastor preached on Revelation 13 and the Antichrist. It’s not a pleasant thing to contemplate, and my heart hurts as I think of the billions of people who will follow this false messiah to eternal hell. This is true. This will happen – the Bible says it. At risk of sounding like a doomsday preacher, the end is near. Life is short, “a blip on the radar screen”, to quote Chris Rice. Is your eternity settled? What’s that? You hope you’ll go to heaven? You think you might? You’re a good person, so maybe . . .
Listen up. You’re playing games with your soul. You’re not good enough. I’m not. We are such dirty rotten sinners that even “our righteous acts are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). Think you can impress God with your filthiness?
Change your mind from thinking you can do something to merit God’s favor, trust only in Jesus Christ’s death for you and his resurrection. Then you can cut out the words like “might” and “maybe” from your conversations about heaven, because “whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). You can know for sure where you go the moment you die (which, by the way, could be today).
And believe me, this is something you want to know.
Made for Eternity 