What is the anguish of hell?

The Lord Jesus described it as a fire.
He described it as a worm that never dies.
And in Matthew chapter 8, verse 12 we have this:

12 “But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

I have heard of people explaining that darkness in a way that removes the light from eyes, as if it’s so dark you can’t see your hand. Without question that is utterly and completely wrong.

How simple to associate the physical being with an eternal reality and think that you do finally understand the full meaning.

Here’s what the Lord has taught me:

Have you ever had such a regret that your heart just can’t handle the pain? Imagine then how deep the pain is when you remember everything you’ve done outside of God, and are filled with such a massive regret that you can hardly look up at all.

Such an oppressiveness that it feels like the most searing fire that never dies. It feels like a worm carving its way through your body and will never stop.

The darkness he’s talking about is a lack of forgiveness from God. It’s the lack of his teaching and guiding because you threw it away in this life. There you will never be embraced by the love of God you will only be embraced by your own failures.

Saying all of that, I have not one sliver of a desire that any man should endure that. You don’t have to today is the day of salvation. If you will just turn your eyes to Jesus, confess that you need him that you are a sinner and beg him to have mercy on you for you will surely be begging when you sit in hell with everything you are.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. There will be wailing and a pain that no word of man can describe here. But I can tell you the truth they can describe it very well as they sit in hell.

How did he teach me this? By letting me see constantly all the things that I have done wrong one piece at a time and every single one of them cut me so deeply I could hardly breathe. What if all my sins came at me at the same time with nowhere to turn no hope nothing called tomorrow?

I wrote this down that at least one or two or 200 might read it and call on Jesus to be saved.

We have two great Pyrenees dogs. They are absolutely beautiful. They love without question but put a piece of food, one piece, down by the two of them and the two sisters will growl and fight over the piece of food.

One word from me and that bitterness stops. Why can’t the people of Christ do the same to their brothers and sisters?

The answer is, do they respect and love the voice of God in them that says “hey hey“?

Often the dogs act more beautifully than the people of God. How shockingly disappointing.

HEY HEY!

Put a blob of paint on a white piece of paper. Put a night crawler into the blob of paint. Watch what the worm does as it moves around, the marks it makes. That’s a person’s activity on this earth. If by chance it happens to resemble anything intelligent, it’s only a matter of chance.

If you do not have God’s hand upon you in Christ, you are just like the worm. You do all kinds of things, but it’s not the intelligence of God so it cannot be eternal, anymore than the marks of a night crawler.

The darkness looks like it accomplishes things. But everything it does is nothing more than movement.

People have said they don’t need God to live their life. That’s correct, but it’s really no life at all without him.

With Christ, however you are like a pencil. The pencil can’t stand on its own. It doesn’t even know what standing is. It certainly can’t write anything intelligent by itself, even though it does exist.

Choose you this day, whom you will follow either the God of your ancestors or the living God in Christ Jesus. The only wise choice you can make is to put yourself in the hands of the intelligence of God.

Why live a useless life when your life when you can be blessed by the eternal hand of the living God?

By His Grace

There are millions who would tell you they’re not concerned about the judgment to come. I have met quite a few who say “I will take my chances“. Such souls are absolutely oblivious to their own sinful nature somehow thinking 50% is good enough.

Here: if you want to really see what your percentage of possibility of salvation is on your own, take the time to ask God to show you what you really are. Ask him to show you how far short you fall as you rest in self salvation.

He loves you enough to die for you personally. You will begin to believe as he reveals just how perverted and unholy you are.

Step into the fire in this life and let him show you why he died for you. You will begin to notice you don’t even have a one percent chance.

By His Grace 

What’s it cost to be a nice guy.?

Especially if you have things extra you can give.

What’s it cost to be a holy guy in Christ?

Regardless, the things you used to own.