A question to ponder.

May I ask you a question?
Has anyone ever taken a Bible and shown you how you can know for sure, that when you die heaven would be your home?
You see the Bible has both bad news and good news.
The bad news is something about you, the good news is something about God
Let’s look at the bad news first; Bad news number One is: We are all sinners. ( Romans 3:23) says” for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ” Sinned means that we have missed the mark. When we lie, hate, lust, or gossip, we have missed the standard God has set.
Suppose you and I were each to throw a rock and try to hit the North Pole. You might throw farther than me, but neither of us would hit it.
When the Bible says ” All have sinned and fall short .” It means that we have all come short of God’s standard of perfection.  In thoughts, words and deeds, we have not been perfect.
But the bad news gets worse:
Bad news number two: The penalty for sin is death.
Romans 6:23 Says. ” For the wages of sin is death.”
Suppose you work for me and I paid you $50, that $50 was your wages. That’s what you earned. The Bible says that by sinning we have earned death. That means we deserve to die and be separated from God forever.
Since there was no way we could come to God, the Bible says that God came to us!
Good news number one: Christ died for you.
Romans 5:8 says, ” But God demonstrates His own love towards us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us”.
Suppose you are in a hospital dying of cancer, I come to you and say” let’s take the cancer cells out of your body and put them into my body.” If it were possible, what would happen to me? What would happen to you? I would die and you would live, I would die in your place.
The Bible says Christ took the penalty that we deserved for sin, and placed it upon Himself, and died in our place. Three days later Christ came back to life to prove that sin and death had been conquered and that His claims to be God were true.
Just as the bad news got worse, the good news gets better!
Good news number two: You can be saved through faith in Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-9 Says, “For by grace ( undeserved favor) you have been saved ( delivered from sin’s penalty) through faith,and that not of yourself; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast “.
Question; What must you trust Christ for: Answer, You must depend on Him alone to forgive you, and to give you eternal life.
Just as you trust a chair to hold you through no effort of your own, so you must trust Jesus Christ to get you to heaven through no effort of your own. 
But you may say, ” I’m religious “, I got to Church, I’m a good person, I help the poor, I don’t do anything that’s really bad”. These are all good, but good living, going to church, and helping the poor or any other good thing you might do cannot get you to heaven,  and God will give you eternal life as a free gift.
Is there anything keeping you from trusting Christ Jesus right now?
Think carefully. There is nothing more important than your need to trust Christ.
Would you like to tell God you are trusting Jesus Christ as your Savior? If you would, why not pray right now, and tell God you are trusting you are trusting His Son?
Remember! It is not the prayer that saves you; it is trusting in Jesus Christ that saves you. Prayer is simply how you telling God what you are doing.
Here is a sample prayer:
Dear God, I know that I am a sinner,  I know my sins deserves to be punished. I believe Christ died for me and rose from the grave. I trust Jesus Christ alone as my Savior. Thank you for the forgiveness and everlasting life I now have.In Jesus name, amen.
What just happened? John 5:24 explains,” He who hears my word,and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life”.
Did you hear God’s word?
Do you believe what God said and trust Jesus Christ as your Savior? Does life mean later or right now? Does it say shall not come into judgment or might not? Does it say has passed from death or shall pass?
Eternal life is based on fact, not feeling.  Memorize John5:24 today.
What do you do now?
Having trusted Jesus as your only way to heaven, here’s how you are to grow in your relationship with Him.
1. Tell God what’s on your mind through prayer: Philippines 4:6-7.
2. Read the Bible daily; to learn more about Him: second Timothy 2:15 and also second Timothy 3:16-17. Start in the book of Philippines.
3.Worship with God’s people in a local Church: Hebrews 10:24-25.
4.Tell others about Jesus Christ.  Matthew 4:19.