Walking by Faith, Not by Sight
Janet Perez Eckles
We took pictures, from every angle. Our granddaughter was the flower girl at my brother’s wedding. So our camera was smoking from those umpteen pictures we took of our princess. We planned to send them to the world.
But all that planning fell apart. On the way home the camera slipped of the console between the seats, right into a large cup of water.
We lifted the dripping camera. There went our pictures. There went our hopes of those priceless images.
To diffuse the tense moment, I gave a silly grin at hubby. “Maybe this is an underwater camera, and we just didn’t know it?”
“Wishful thinking,” he said.
That’s me—the wishful thinker. I used to wish about lots of things. In fact, I wished my way would be the one that would bring me to heaven: By being good. By praying. By staying out of trouble. Through my religion. Or wishing God would be good enough to swing open heaven’s doors and unable to resist my pitiful look, He’d say, “C’mon on, silly chica.” I wished that.
Then some powerful truths evaporated my wishful, wrong thinking. God’s truth—the spiritual GPS programmed my destination: heaven.
The map showed two turns outlined in chapter 10 of Romans:
1. “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’
2. And believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Father, how awesome of you to make it so simple to be saved from hell and enter heaven. I confess there was a time when I doubted the path would be as simple. But now I know when I made the commitment to follow you, my heart was transformed. My life was changed. Joy was renewed. And hope for eternity turned to reality. I thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen.
• When you take your last breath, where will eternity find you?
• Were you like me, wrong about the way to be saved from eternal gloom?
• Is Jesus knocking at the door of your heart?
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