Peace and Torment
This is a cemetery.
It is the perfect place to find peace and tranquility.
There are no disputes here.
Everyone here was buried with their love and hate, joy and sadness, hope and despair, faith and doubt, good and evil, humbleness and pride, wealth and poverty…
They all experienced the same fate.
Their flesh deteriorates in peace.
But their souls, where are they?
Wherever they are, do you suppose they are also in peace?
The Lord Jesus said: “And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell…,” Mark 9.47.
If one eye is able to send many souls to hell, imagine what a whole body, dominated by sin, can do.
Hell is filled with the souls of people who had a lifetime of good intentions, but no fear for the Creator.
They never valued His Word.
Instead, their life consisted of going from one party to the next…
They didn’t pay any mind to the significance of Jesus’ death.
And they even made fun of His Word.
They never took it seriously.
They thought they could live however they wanted, because, according to them, hell was a man-made concept.
Many who find themselves on this same sinful path, think the same way and continue to practice the same sins.
But the question remains:
Is your conscience in perfect peace with regard to the salvation of your soul?
If you die today, do you know where you will spend eternity?
The rich man begged Abraham to send Lazarus to warn his five brothers about hell, Luke 16.27-28.
The same is happening with those who are already there.
They would love to tell their children, parents, siblings and loved ones about salvation in Jesus Christ, to keep them from ending up there too.
But they cannot.
I can only imagine their suffering.
“Fool! This night your soul will be required of you, then whose will those things be which you have provided?” Luke 12.20.
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