I Didn't Mean To Blackmail My (Ex)Girlfriend With Religion

[RigMedic]

I think the real issue here is not that you'll be lonely in heaven, but your motives for becoming a Christian. Let me give you an example.

Two men are seated on a plane. The first is given a parachute and told to put it on, as it would improve his flight. He’s a little skeptical at first, since he can’t see how wearing a parachute on a plane could possibly improve his flight. He decides to experiment and see if the claims are true. As he puts it on, he notices the weight of it upon his shoulders and he finds he has difficulty in sitting upright. However, he consoles himself with the fact he was told that the parachute would improve his flight. So he decides to give it a little time.

As he waits he notices that some of the other passengers are laughing at him for wearing a parachute on a plane. He begins to feel somewhat humiliated. As they continue to point and laugh at him, he can stand it no longer. He slinks in his seat, unstraps the parachute, and throws it to the floor. Disillusionment and bitterness fill his heart, because as far as he was concerned he was told an outright lie.

The second man is given a parachute, but listen to what he is told. He’s told to put it on because at any moment he’ll be jumping 25,000 feet out of the plane. He gratefully puts the parachute on. He doesn’t notice the weight of it upon his shoulders, nor that he can’t sit upright. His mind is consumed with the thought of what would happen to him if he jumped without the parachute.

Let’s now analyze the motive and the result of each passenger’s experience. The first man’s motive for putting the parachute on was solely to improve his flight. The result of his experience was that he was humiliated by the passengers, disillusioned, and somewhat embittered against those who gave him the parachute. As far as he’s concerned, it will be a long time before anyone gets one of those things on his back again.

The second man put the parachute on solely to escape the jump to come. And because of his knowledge of what would happen to him if he jumped without it, he has a deep-rooted joy and peace in his heart knowing that he’s saved from sure death. This knowledge gives him the ability to withstand the mockery of the other passengers.

My worry is this. Let's say you do become a Christian because of her. You will be turning to Christ for the wrong reasons and when you get exactly what is promised to all Christians which is trials, tribulations, persecution humiliation, you will fall away. What if at this time she decides to leave you? What if she dies before you? Suffering through loss is a hard task to take when you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

You can be certain of this though, eternity is a very real place and we will all come into it. However it will either be an eternity in heaven with our God or an eternity in hell without him.

Think about this and be honest with yourself

If you have told a lie, that makes you a liar.

If you have ever stolen anything, that makes you a thief.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Rev 21:8 (KJV)

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Cor 6:10 (KJV)

Jesus said that if you even lust after someone then you have committed adultery already within your heart. How many people can say that they have never had sexual desire for someone else.

These are just three of God's laws he set in place. You may have your own standards for what you think a good person should be, but God has his own. According to his standards we have all fallen short.

What people dont seem to understand about Jesus is that what happened on the cross was a legal transaction. We all broke God's law, Jesus paid our fine. All we have to do is accept it.

You accept it by repenting and trusting Jesus.

Repentance simply means to turn away from something. So turn away from all the bad things you have been doing, turn away from the things you know are wrong. Your conscience will bear witness to it. Humble yourself before God and confess your sins to him. He already knows them he just wants you to be accountable to them. Then trust Jesus with your salvation.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; Acts 3:19 (KJV)

Here comes another parachute analogy!

Say your in an airplane 50,000 feet above the earth and it begins to go down. The pilot throws you a parachute. You would put the parachute on, and trust that it would save your life from the jump to come. Thats the same kind of trust you need to have in Jesus.

When you do that you will step out of death and into life.

The Holy Spirit will change your heart and you will desire the things God desire's and want the things God wants.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 3:16-17 (KJV)

Edited July 19, 2014 by RigMedic