The Good, the Bad, and the “Godly”

By E. P. Shagott

 

There is a saying that I heard once, “There are good people in Hell”.  I wondered, “how can that be?” How can someone/ones that did not do bad things have their soul spend eternity in Hell?  Isn’t that just for people that do bad things?  Well, as for everything the answer can be found in the Word of God.  

 

In John 14:6, Jesus states that “no one comes to the Father but through Me!”. Also in Matthew 7:2, Jesus also states “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the Kingdom of our Father, but the one who does the will of my Father in Heaven. 

 

So in Matthew 6:33 it spells it out quite clearly, “Seek ye the Kingdom first and all will be added to you”. I believe there are many good people doing “good things”, yes, even in and for their church that will not enter the Father’s Kingdom for it is for themselves, still good things, but not for the Father’s will but for their own.  Because of that unfortunately one day when this life, which goes by so quickly, many will hear as it is written in Matthew 7:23, Jesus say, “leave me, I never knew you”!

 

Now I say “many” for it is also written in Matthew 7:13-14, “wide is the gate that leads to destruction and “many” enter through but the narrow gate leads to life and “few” find it! 

 

I believe that Joyce Meyer a Evangelist once said it best.  She said, “If when I die if everything I believe about God is wrong, then I will lose nothing.  But if when I die and what I believe about God is true, which it is, then the non believers have lost “everything!” 

 

The Righteous

There will come a time
like it was in the past,
when a question about a righteous person
most definitely will be asked.

So long ago there were many people 
who turned from God and were living in sin.
Abraham called out to God who was angry,
and had a question to ask of Him.

Would God destroy this place
if fifty righteous people Abraham could find?
God would not and spare all
and this will be the sign.

Well, most know the story
for Abraham fifty he could not find,
so he asked God again and again,
until only ten was left on his mind.

My friends, today is very similar 
just like it was in the past.
Wrong is becoming the right
and the righteous is hard to find if asked.

So what about you?
In which line will you be?
Is it with the many that turned from God,
or will it be with the few righteous and me? 

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E. P. Shagott 

From God's Heart, To Mine, To Yours, Heaven

Book #4, page #1