When the Rubber Hits the Road

The Moment of Truth That We All Will Face

“For whoever shall save his life shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? (Matthew 16:25-27).

In our introductory verse, the Lord is addressing the most important decision we will ever make in our lifetime. He equated losing one’s life to coming by faith to Him and His sacrificial death at Calvary. We are a fallen race unable to save ourselves or live a life pleasing to the Lord. He offers “newness of life” in exchange for a life that will end in an eternity away from the presence of the Lord. We can save our life going our own way which will result in the loss of our soul, or we can lose our life to a life the Lord has prepared for us by His great sacrifice on the Cross. The Lord has given us the choice to go our own way or to follow Him.

The day will come when we depart this world. And that is when the rubber hits the road, so to speak. It could happen at any time. The moment of truth! We are not promised tomorrow. We will stand before the Lord as His child, or will we be judged on our own merit which will not end well for us.

Many today have no interest in the things of the Lord. They live their lives as they like with no concern for what will happen on “that day.” But that day will come and we will all face it alone. No family, no friends; we will face the Lord alone and have to answer for our lives here on Earth.

The question for us all today is: Do we know if once our life is finished down here that we will go to Heaven and share in all the blessings the Lord has prepared for His own? If our answer is yes to that question: Why do we think that our final destination will be Heaven? Some would point to their good lives. How they have tried to live lives that would earn them a place in Heaven. Others might say that if there is a Heaven they think they will go and live their lives with little thought toward “that day.” Whatever our thoughts, or beliefs, are on eternity, the Bible shows us what the Lord, who is the final judge, says about it.

The Lord gave us His Word, the Bible so that all would know what He requires of us. We have a choice to receive His Word and go His way or to reject it and go our own way. He paid a great price that we might lose our old life of sin and come to Him in repentance and faith. We are saved only by faith in Jesus and His sacrificial death on the Cross. He draws us in a love that brought him from His home in Glory to die at Calvary so that we might be saved.

When the rubber hits the road, our moment of truth will be upon us. We will pass from this world saved by the love that reached down in mercy, or we will have rejected His great love and lost our souls. The choice is before us today. What will our moment of truth bring us? Will we lose our life of sin and be rewarded with life everlasting in the presence of the Lord, or will we save our life, by going our own way with the end result being to suffer eternal loss? The road lies before us. The question before us looms large; When might our time come when we are required to give an account? One thing is sure. One day, the moment of truth will come for us all.

“This day I call Heaven and Earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses, now choose life, so that you and your children may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).

Always Remember,

God Loves You!

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