What Will You Do in the End?

I was struck by this little verse in Jeremiah 5. The prophet has been sent by God to deliver some harsh words to Judah because they had fallen into the same idolatry as the northern tribes. God was about to make them serve foreigners in a land not their own just as they served foreign gods in their own land.

Then here comes this verse:

Jeremiah 5:30 "An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their own direction"

So men are speaking from God words they make up and ruling for God by their authority, not God's. So here comes the next zinger:

"... my people love to have it so..."

I'm not castigating Israel at this time - because we all love to have it our way instead of God's. It's a sad thing about human nature but it goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve decided to follow thier own wits instead of trusting what God said about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

So then the kicker: "...but what will you do when the end comes?"

Just as for Judah there was an end where God had them carted off to Babylon, so too there is an end for us: death. We love to carry on as if we are the kings of our universe and masters of our destiny. But what about when the end comes? Have you ever given serious thought to it?

What if Jesus was right when He said "no man comes to the Father but by Me."? After all, He is the only one who has died and come back to life - resurrected - a fact witnessed by over 500 people at one time (1 Corinthians 15).

Don't let the end come before you are ready for it.

Pastor Tom