One Chance

A disturbing about life is that we only get one chance. Any decision one makes and acts upon is final. There is no way to go back in time and redo it. Often times, I don’t take thins into consideration. More recently though, I’ve been strangely aware of this truth. Tonight I go to the prison to minister with my pastor to inmates. I’m very excited about this opportunity.

These men made choices at some point that had an end result of separation from society. The prison we’re going to is an incredibly large, maximum security prison. The men here didn’t just get caught busting a window. They have committed murder, rape and other horrid acts possibly more than once. The people I will see tonight never get an opportunity to redo the life they lost. Truth is that we’re the same way. I never get another chance at time. I could very well be there myself.

Even more wild than all of the things above is that I’m no better than those men. I’ve flaunted my sin in the face of a Holy God who in His love had to reject me because of my wickedness. It doesn’t matter how bad the things I’ve done are. It’s that I’ve offended Him by going against Him. My best righteousness is like filthy rags compared to Him.

 We get one chance at life and in turn one chance at eternity. If one never comes to the understanding that they, just like me and everyone else, have violated God’s law and will stand before Him in judgement and that they must have the atoning blood of Christ applied to their life, then they will spend eternity separated from God in His wrath.

This is not politically correct, but it’s not about whether people are offended. It is about people seeing the truth of who they are in comparison to a Holy God. 

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