Is your name in the book of Life?

Revelation 20:11:15

How do mothers know?  I have never understood how my mother knew what I was doing in my bedroom as a small child, but she would be in the kitchen and yell, “Bobby you stop doing (whatever it was I was doing, and I was being quiet) and I mean now.”  That was long before cameras were invented to spy on the kids, so how did she know?  When I read Revelation 20:11-15 today, this thought came into my mind; “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”  (Galatians 6:7-8) 

We cannot con God, He must be true to His nature, yet many have no understanding of what God has said on judgment, but He is clear that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God.  So what makes us righteous, only the Son, look at Ephesians 2:8,9, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.”  The apostle Peter ask this question; “And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”  Why is that question not being discussed?  Our life on earth is at best 120 years, and then comes judgment, and that is what Revelation 20:11-15 is all about. “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it.  From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.  And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.  Then another book was opened, which is the book of life.  And the dead were judged by what they had done.  And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.   And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

It is so important to have your name in the book of life that will determine your life for ever, and I know many say it is not a real hell, but God said it is a lake of fire and that it does not end, and you will not die but live forever.  Is your name in the book of life?  That is the most important question you have ever been asked!

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice