Timo Tagaloa, a retired Western Samoa rugby union winger, remembers being dumbstruck by two questions asked by a young Christian. The man asked, “Timo, if you were to die tonight, on a scale of 0 to 100, how sure are you that you would spend eternity with God?” And then he asked, “Timo, if you were to stand before God and He asked you, ‘Why should I let you into my heaven’—what would you say?”

How might we answer those vital questions? Some of us may feel we are good enough to get into heaven; others may think God has no reason at all to let us in. Many of us simply don’t know what the future holds after we die.

The Bible gives us God’s perspective: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). When we trust Jesus with our lives, we can be sure we’re heading for heaven and eternal life with God. We just have to receive Him as Tagaloa did: “So that night, I asked Christ to take control of the throne of my life. I now have a purpose for living. I have direction in my life, and the most important change I have seen is that I want to please God.”

No one needs to be uncertain. Heaven is not a wage earned by us but a gift from God.

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Chris Wale

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