Quality of Faith

What do we have to do to go to Heaven? And once we do it, can we undo it? Is the thing we have to do a one-time thing, or a process over some period of time, and if so, for how long? These are common questions we tend to ask ourselves, and we spent most of this episode on these topics in some form or another.

I don’t believe it’s as simple as being dunked in water. I don’t believe any prayer will do it. I don’t believe a certain attendance record at your local church or even the denomination of this church is a deciding factor. In fact, I can make a longer list of things I don’t believe will get us into Heaven than I can of things that I think will.

At the same time, I’m almost positive that whatever the answer is, it’s not a complicated one. I don’t believe God sent His son to bear the burden of our sins and suffer the way He did to demonstrate God’s love, only to make the acceptance of this love difficult to figure out. If we have to solve a spiritual Rubik’s cube in order to receive our salvation, why put Jesus through that in the first place? But if salvation is so simple, why is the Bible not clearer on what exactly defines it and how it’s obtained?

I believe it’s because we are asking the wrong questions. God didn’t share the minimum standard with us because that’s not what He wants for us. He did make it clear and simple. He tells us to seek Him with our whole heart, and to seek first His Kingdom and the rest will be added. If we seek God with all our heart, it’s impossible not to find salvation in the process, but it will be on our way to far greater things.

This isn’t for God’s benefit. It’s because God wants us to enjoy more of His blessings than just the minimum. He knows that we will have more peace, love & joy seeking Him with our whole heart than we will by seeking enough of it to get us to Heaven. Rather than worrying about what we have to do for God, we should be seeking all He wants to do for us, and Heaven will most definitely be included.