Do You Know Where You're Going?

Do You Know Where You’re Going?

Jesus said to Thomas, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:16

Before you skip this reading and assume it’s not for me because “I am already saved”, have a look. Normally this is a good question to ask someone who may not know Christ as Savior. You have probably experienced a moment when the Lord opens the door to witness to someone and if we took a survey this is probably the #1 question.

Recently my mother died. It was the end of an up and down battle with cancer, she was 84. About a year and a half ago I had the opportunity to lead her to Jesus as He used cancer to draw her to Himself. She was given over to hospice and the next few days where not looking good. Kneeling at her bedside, in a fatigued, beaten down condition the question I asked was mom “do you know where you’re going? The typical answer was given “I hope so, after all I was a good person…” you know the “lost’s lingo”. She accepted Jesus as Savior.

From that day on my mom began a recovery that no one had an answer to. She got back her independence and was up and going. Often calling me with a prayer request to relay to the men of the Colony, who by the way were prayer warriors used to get to this point.

I wish I could say my mom spent the next year and a half reading God’s word and fellowshipping with believers. She still had a love of life and the things of this world.

Last week on her death bed I began to usher her into the arms of the Savior, letting her know it was ok. It was a little disturbing to see the resistance to let go, I mean who wouldn't want to see Jesus?

My wife and I love to travel, each year going to a new stop. We always read everything we can so when we get there we “know where we’re going”. Well that night I realized that although she had a ticket to heaven, she never read the “brochure” on where she was going.

So my question remains, Do you know where you’re going? Have you read the Bible (brochure), the greatest love story ever about a God desiring to have fellowship and spend eternity with you?  We are reminded over and over, “This is not our home…, I go to prepare a place…, Where I am you will be… let not your hearts be troubled…etc.

I hope when my time comes I’m ready and willing, how about you? – Rob Russomano is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and serves on our full-time staff

Team YOU: Deuteronomy 4-6; Proverbs 8; Mark 11:1-18

Motivations: The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts. A. W. Tozer

Practice to Remember: Level 1: Ephesians 3:14-15; Level 2: Ephesians 3:8-13

Powered Up:  Prayer should rise more out of God’s Word and concern for His kingdom than even out of our personal needs, trials or desires.