Dear friend, I want you to take a minute and honestly examine yourself and ask yourself these questions.  Ask yourself “If I died today, where will I go? What is my destiny? How am I shaping my destiny?” You might want to do this in a quiet place when you are alone. Friend, we often worry too much about the little things in life, about an education, about a job, about a wife....

 Even though these things are important, we usually forget the most important question to ask and get answer to, which is “Where do I go from here? Where do I spend eternity?”                                                                        
You may be like many and personally don’t believe that God exists, or that there is heaven and hell. The fact is, we are so little in the scheme of things that whether we believe in any of these things or not, they exist anyway. Nothing changes. For example, in some countries, a lot of people don’t believe that there is a disease like HIV/AIDS. The truth is that their belief or non-belief has no bearing on the existence of the disease. That is, the disease exists whether they believe it or not. The only trouble is that because they don’t believe, they live their lives having unprotected sex and other practices that enhance contraction of  the disease. When they do, they surely die. And the disease continues to exist when they are gone, just as if they had never existed. The disease just doesn’t “notice or cares”. This is exactly what happens to us when we don’t believe in God. God exists anyway. The bible says that we are just a mist that appears today and is gone tomorrow.

God continues to exist whether we believe him or not. The only one that looses anything is the one that fails to believe, like with HIV/AIDS example, they live their lives the way they want and end up in death (hell). That’s exactly what the bible says about sin, “the wages of sin is death (hell)” …”But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord”                                             
                                          
Dear friend, I don’t say these things to scare you or to coax you into anything. But rather, to get you thinking about something that is important. Yes, very important.                                                                                                                      
The bible says God will judge the world. Again, he will do it whether we believe it or not. Our belief or unbelief has nothing to do. It really doesn’t count.

The bible also says that God will judge by using his law, the Ten Commandments. Because God is perfect, holy, and just, only those who have never broken any of them will get into heaven. The rest will go to hell. Here are some of the laws God will use

Thou shall have no other gods before me.             
Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 
Thou shall not kill                                              
Thou shall not commit adultery                           
Thou shall not steal                                           
Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s house.        
Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or anything that is thy neighbors.

Jesus said if you have ever looked on a woman with lost, then you have committed adultery with her in your heart. If you have ever taken anything that it doesn’t belong to you, ever, even when you were still a child, then you have stolen, and you’re a thief before God. I can go on and on interpreting these laws. But the point is, no one on earth can ever live a perfect life that will make them good before God.                                                                              

Now what, we are all going to hell then? No! Because of God’s love, and  because God is just (justice) and cannot allow criminals to go unpunished, he himself took our punishment. That all we need to do is BELIEVE that he received our punishment and make him our God. If we just BELIEVE, then we will go to heaven. If we don’t just BELIEVE, we go to hell. How simple, eh?  Well, you can believe today and go to heaven. I mean right now, you can change your destiny, from hell to heaven. If you want to do that, say the following prayer and mean every word.                                                              

"Dear Jesus, I believe in You. I believe You are the Son of God, that You died for my sins, to take my punishment. I believe that You were buried because of my sins and rose again as written in the Bible. I'm sorry for the things I've done that hurt You. Forgive me for all my sins. Come into my heart, take charge of my life and make me the way You want me to be. With Your ever present help, I renounce all my sinful practices of the past. Cleanse my heart with Your precious blood. Write my name in Your Book of Life. I confess You now as my Lord and Savior. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Thank You, Jesus! In Jesus' Name, Amen."

When you have done this, then look for a bible and start reading. Also look for a bible based church to attend. Pray more to Jesus who has saved you so that he can show you how to grow. Then if you need support, call us (832-889-6605) and we will be glad to help. We love you!