The Cost of Heaven

But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?" This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.

Luke 12:20-21

God does not love a pauper over a lucrative entrepreneur, and God’s grace is for the world’s most wealthy people, and for the poorest of any society.  A pauper can hide all that is receives from charity, the well-to-do can invest riches; nonetheless, to hoard any amount will not help you in eternal matters.  To God your value is not measured by your great assets, nor if you’re homeless and without a next meal.

God’s miracle of eternal life isn’t affordable through your earnings; no amount in property, stocks and bonds are enough; nor will a mere smidgen of currency buy your way to heaven.  It won’t matter how much someone “stores things up for himself,” however much you finish with—rich or poor—you’re dead.  And, God has already decided if you are of His eternal Kingdom or not.

Those who have and those who have not are able to afford God’s greatest miracle.  So what is the cost?  “Jesus answered, ‘I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit’” (John 3:5).  What you need is a miracle—the miracle is given by God in salvation, birthed by God’s Spirit; and this birth is given to those who confess to follow Jesus.  Do you want a miracle?  If the miracle is important to you, rich or poor you must understand, in order to receive the most wonderful miracle, you must be willing to give up the things you love for the things God loves—namely, Christ and those needing Christ—that will bring miracles in your life, and the gates into God’s Kingdom will be open to you. 

Owen <><

P. S.

You may ask, “Will God take everything I own?”  My answer is that I don’t know, he may take more than you have this moment, or he may give you more than you can imagine.  To be willing to give up all you have, has nothing to do with things, it has to do with your faith, and faith in God—above what you can possess.