The real issue*

II Peter 1: "For an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our lord and savior Jesus Christ." Election year politics causes many discussions about who will be our next President for the next four years. This is important if you are a liberal thinking individual you want Obama to win. If you are a conservative, you want Mitt Romney to win. This will affect our lives for the next 4 years and beyond. The supreme court appointments have a much more lasting effect than just about anything else the President does. Then there are things/laws these administrations set in order that sometimes have consequences down the road. For example the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which forced banks and lending institutions to make those loans that we are now cursing them for and even cursing Bush like it was his fault. This country has always gone thru economic cycles when we didn't try to fix them and just let them take their course they were short-lived. The longest depressions were the ones our leaders tried to fix. I said all of that to say this. These are short term problems, the next president will be in office for the next 4 years and then we go thru this again. There are eternal decisions that we are making, and you are making them. We are all going to end up in eternity somewhere based on your decisions in this life. These are eternal consequences to this life, not just the short term effects of the community reinvestment act, or the next presidential term. Where will we spend eternity? Have we allowed sinful people to cloud our judgment? The Bible says all have sinned. If we say we have not sinned we lie. When I was young, it seemed we heard so much of a rapture. I remember in a Sunday school class, it had to be pre-1965. One young man said he did not think we would see the 1965 cars come out. Well, that time has come and gone. 1965 autos are now antiques. More likely I will enter eternity thru the grave when this life is over. Have I made that entrance secure into the place I will want to be? Its seems the generation following me is not so concerned about eternity anymore. I do not know the length of my days. 74 years as my Dad, 80 as some of my Uncles. 105 as Great Aunt Sofie. Some believe there are many ways and different religions that will get us there. I believe it is only thru Jesus Christ and his death on the cross for my sins. I believe he rose again and is preparing for me a place where I can have an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of Jesus Christ. I see all these farmers harvesting crops and making hay to carry them thru the coming winter months. What preparations are you making for eternity, that is the real issue of life? For God so loved us that he gave Jesus to die on a cross for our sins. He rose again. God Bless, LVZ.