What was I thinking?
We are faced with many choices from the time we are born until the last breath we take. We are flooded with choices from the time we go to bed at night until the time we awaken in the dawn hours. Choices, choices, and more choices … some choices we may turn out well, while others drive us up the wall. It becomes a huge challenge because no sane person wants to purposely make bad choices in life. Some of bad choices affect only ourselves while others are affected by them!
A question was posed to an older gentleman by Larry King on his talk show concerning his belief in heaven and hell. This man’s reply to King’s question was “I’d like a lot of activity. Heaven sounds too placid for me. There’s a lot to do in hell.” There are many, many folks who hold this view. They have this gross concept concerning Satan’s domain. Obviously, no thought is put into their answers! And some of the reasons they give for holding this erroneous view is legion. “I don’t want to be alone and I know that hell will be filled with all of my friends.” “If hell is a real place one goes to after death, I don’t think it would be bad. There will certainly be a lot of interesting people.” While this man’s observation and reasoning may be sound concerning “a lot of interesting people,” his lack of sound knowledge on the subject of hell is terribly flawed to say the least! Make no mistake about this, friends!
Those who believe they will be able to “hang out” with their friends in hell will be in for a rude awaking! Each resident of hell won’t see each other nor will there be a party going on! Hell is perhaps the loneliest place ever created by our God! Satan worshipers on earth believe that he will be their friend in hell. That won’t be the case because the devil will have his own troubles to deal with in the final analysis. He is going to suffer the same, if not worst than his followers. Satan doesn’t care about your well-being here on earth. He is only interested in your soul to get back at God. Remember, he is the father of all lies! In John 8:44, Jesus said, “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your fathers you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Is this the role model you want to follow? Is this the hero you want to idolize? One day, you will say, “What was I thinking?