We all have concerns for our future, but our experiences demonstrate that we do not have any guarantees as to what tomorrow may bring into our lives. Our decisions and actions that we make and we do now will affect the future, sometimes in ways we can’t even imagine. It is logical to plan for the future because how we plan and act now does effect our future. The whole of the letter to the Hebrews encourages us, in fact pleads with us, to think of the future, after this life, NOW. We may regard end-of-life as being a long-term future matter, but who knows what will happen tomorrow, regardless of our own plans and actions. We often consider that death is a long-term issue that we can easily put off to tomorrow, but can we justify ignoring truth, maybe it will happen to us tomorrow. Therefore, is death something we should seriously consider now? If you have not embraced Jesus then the reality of the evidence is that you will sometime end up in a very dark place, because to reject Jesus, to reject God’s Son, means you WILL end up in a very dark place. This Hebrews passage reminds us that those who heard about Jesus, who knew about Jesus but didn’t take him seriously, were to be rejected by Jesus at the time when acceptance by Jesus was crucial. Matthew 25:31-46 also makes this clear (as do many other Bible references).

I have faith in Jesus. We all have faith in many things, even in the chair that we sit on. Because we trust that it will not collapse on us. Jesus promises that our trust in him ensures that we will not be let down when it matters at the end of life here. The evidence for this is compelling. The probabilities are overwhelming if you desire to search the evidence. Faith does not mean that we have no doubts, but the strong evidence convinces me that the probability of it being true is enormous.