Yesterday I was hurrying to get home but was also enjoying the beautiful scenery. If I don’t have an errands to make, or Timmies coffee orders, I usually pass the Hamburg exit and get off in Eden.
Yesterday I also accidentally passed the Eden Exit. I drove by the Eden rest stop and thought, “Hmm, I think that comes AFTER the exit.”
I got off at the next exit, Irving. And adjusted my route and made it home, slightly later than I had originally planned. And I really didn’t even waste gas, as I was able to fill up on the Reservation too.
I say all that to say there is a huge difference between this life and eternity. Here we get to change directions, still change our destination when we ignore the exit sign, and find a detour when we hear the GPS say, “Turn around when possible.”
This side of heaven, there is an eraser on our pencils, white out, the delete button (sorry, tempted to throw in a Hillary joke here), and Tide.
God gives us opportunities and chances to repent, to turn around and change directions. Lost, we are in Adam, and that nature will carry us straight to hell. God cannot be in the presence of sin and His holy nature the bible describes is like a consuming fire. A fire might not want to intentionally destroy a little leaf but simply when it gets too close the flame engulfs the leaf. However, God made a way that a holy perfect God can be with man for all eternity.
Do not take that lightly. You don’t die and say, “oops, that Bible was right after all” and then get a 2nd go of it. When you die, your eternity is fixed. You will regret you missed the exit to heaven, but there are no more exits on the highway to hell.
The time to get off the wide path that leads to destruction is NOW.