Salvation on the deathbed When I was growing up as at a younger age, I knew I needed to give God a place in my life. In my childish thought, I thought that I will get saved by and by. I felt that getting saved from sin would come along the way by accident. Sincerely, I used to think in my heart that all I needed to do was to continue living my life and that when it is time to die (as if death will give me a pre-information), I will simply pray, with my last breathe that, “God, forgive me my sins” and then die. To me, I thought that was enough to give me access to the Kingdom of God. But thank God I didn’t continue in that delusion. What can be more delusional? Unwise Anani Sunday! Who or what informed me that I will know when I will breathe my last? Certainly, I cannot die before fulfilling God’s assignment for me here on earth but when God will call me home, I cannot tell. It is the simple truth for every man. Death is a transition that no man can tell when it will occur. The man who looks hale and hearty could suddenly slump and die within seconds. The one who was resting on his bed after a strenuous week at work could have a plane crash into him right on his bed! The one who was full of life before leaving home could meet his ‘waterloo’ when he misses his step while using the staircase at work. Another could just sleep and not open his eyes on this side of life again. What about the one who put a call through to a friend that he was close to the meeting venue only for him to be knocked down by the vehicle coming in the opposite direction after few minutes? What about the many cases of many a person who departed Earth in manners we are only left to open our mouths ajar to wonder about? These are some of the cases we can hardly reason out. At such times, we sigh and say, “God understands better”, “God giveth and taketh life.” Truth it is. If the cases described above involved people, unsaved souls, who had been thinking the way I thought as a child (that I will pray the God-forgive-me-my-sins prayer on my deathbed rather than grabbing the opportunity of getting saved now), then one will agree that they will miss the Kingdom since they breathed their last unprepared and more dangerously, unsaved. It is a foolish thing to live a Christless life. I will repeat that: it is a foolish thing to live a Christless life. When a man is called to righteousness but he chooses to revel in sin and perversion, then you will agree that he is dancing on the fence of hell. Danger looms. When a man is called to purity but he signed up for philandering, nothing can be more soul-damning. When a patient is in pains, he will jump at every available medication suggested by the doctor. A sinner is one in pains. Such a person needs help. He shouldn’t turn down the spiritual medications offered him by the Healer. Perhaps you also think that you will decide for God after you have committed all the necessary atrocities that there are; after your friends become born again; after you gain a university admission; when you are comfortable in life; when you get a job; when you are married; when you have retired from work; when you have toured the world and when you begin to see the traces of old-age through the appearance of strands of gray hairs on your head, it is important you ask yourself whether you may ever see a gray hair on your head; whether you may ever tour the world; whether you may ever retire from work; whether you may ever get married; whether you may ever get a job; whether you may ever get a university admission; whether your friends may ever get converted; whether as concerning atrocities, you may ever have your cake and eat it before Christ comes or God calls you home. You are not meant to die young, neither am I; nobody is. And we are not meant to be scared either. That is not the purpose of this work. But ignoring God’s widely-opened arms which is a call to get saved from sin is an unwise decision. It is a horrible drama you will not like to see yourself. Time has gone. The time is far spent. There is no better time than now to get saved. Thinking that you will say your prayer of conversion on your deathbed is an opportunity you may never have. Not everybody die on a bed. Some did but you may never do. No one is being begged to get saved, one is only reminded that the ‘…holiness without which no man shall see the Lord’ is an experience and a state that is preceded by repentance and salvation. Dear, you need to be born again. Simply pray for conversion. Not everybody gets salvation on the deathbed. Simply pray for mercy. Forsake the evil ways. Wake up to righteousness. May God help and bless you. Vessel Anani Sunday K (VASK) was saved by grace.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:24:56 +0000
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