Question Time?
By Chris Wale
Timo Tagaloa, a retired Western Samoa winger, remembers being dumbstruck by two questions
asked by a young Christian. The man asked: “Timo, if you were to die tonight, on a scale of 0 to 100, how sure are you that you would spend eternity with God?” And then he asked, “Timo, if you were to stand before God and He asked you, ‘Why should I let you into my heaven’—what would you say?”
How might we answer those vital questions? Some of us may feel we are good enough to get
into heaven; others may think God has no reason at all to let us in. Many of us simply don’t know what
the future holds after we die.
The Bible gives us God’s perspective: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). When we trust Jesus with our lives, we can be sure we’re heading for heaven and eternal life with God.
We just have to receive Him as Tagaloa did. “So that night, I asked Christ to take control of the
throne of my life,” he says. “I now have a purpose for living. I have direction in my life, and the most
important change I have seen is that I want to please God.”
No one needs to be uncertain. Heaven is not a wage earned by us, but a gift from God.
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. – John 3:16 – 17
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2 Corinthians 13:5 says to examine ourselves to see whether we are in the faith or not. I believe the two questions the young man asked Timo are questions applicable to us all. We all ought to have solid, validated answered for these two questions. It’s not enough being 99.9% sure of where to spend eternal life after death. We must be 100% sure. And that is only possible when we fully repent if our sins, surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ and put our total trust and faith in Him.- Then we can be sure. Anything besides this, is a tickect to spending eternity in hell with the devil.