“The Chasm.”

No one is a little bit pregnant. Either you are pregnant or you are not pregnant.

Almost saved means completely lost. “Close but no cigar.”
“One can almost taste the flavor of freedom but be drowned at the edge of dry land.”
Moses led the people of God during the exodus all the way to the edge of the promised land, but he himself was not able to enter it.

Lazarus died at the door of the house of a very wealthy man. (Hungry and thirsty?)
The wealthy man died with no one to help his hunger and thirst in the afterlife.
One was being comforted and the other was in agony.

There is a chasm built by God where no one can cross from one side to the other side. What is worse is that the only thing that passes the customs of heaven and hell is “Memory.” “Remember that when you were on earth you had good things and Lazarus bad things, now he is comforted and you are in agony.”
Besides there is a “Chasm” between here and there that no one can cross.

With a little bit of imagination it is easy to hear one Angel speaking to another Angel words such as these: “Oh how I remember that on every corner there was a church, and how every other radio station available in the limousine of the rich man was ignored daily and how the TV and counselor made available a word of hope and wisdom with pastors ready to visit who were only a phone call away.”

There is a time coming which is soon to arrive when there will be famine on earth not for food but for the word of God and none will be available to them. The weight of the Chasm, the impossibility to cross from either side to dispense any means of grace is over.

Though it was not my intention to speak about death, let me just remind my friends that what grabs my heart in anguish is the “Finality of death.” “There is no backtracking.” “There is no taking back.” What has been done is done and what needs to be done will remain undone. There is only one life and it will soon be past and only what is done for Christ will last.

“It is established for a man to die once and after that the judgment.”
Matters with God are settled on this side of Heaven, later will be too late.”
Live life wisely in the strength of the Lord and not in your own strength.
Fear the Lord and shun evil. 

This was a fellow pilgrim on his way home.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.