From EP to ET in minutes

We often read car adverts that boast a performance speed so impressive that it can reach 0-60 in, say, 4 seconds.    After hearing of yet another drug related death of a young person,  at a party last week-end,  the thought came to me that he went from Ecstatic Pleasure to Eternal Torments in a matter of minutes.

A terrible blight upon this once great country is the state of our young people.  Most of them seem to live for hedonistic pleasure.  Their lives consist of a constant round of drunkenness and drug taking at wild parties, and frequent acts of fornication.  No doubt while they are "enjoying" themselves they have no thought for God, their souls or their eternal destinies.  The godless behaviour of these "people" is extremely brazen; it is almost as if they are deliberately seeking to shake their fists in rebellion against God and His infallible word - the Bible.

However, God is not mocked, Whatever a person sows, he reaps (Galatians 6 v 7).  These young people, (and no doubt many middle-aged and elderly people) who seem to think they are able to live ungodly lives with impunity, have a big shock coming to them.  When death strikes (often unexpectedly) they are then thrust into eternity.  If they haven't repented then they will endure the torments of Hell, one second of which will obliterate all the pleasant memories of sinful behaviour.  I well remember preaching in the open-air on Broadstairs sea-front when a man came past boasting that "sin is fun".  I do hope that for his sake he repents of such stupidity and wickedness.

Indeed, even as people are engaged in acts of vile sinfulness they may well be ushered into Hell's torments - remember Diana.  Even while she was conducting an adulteress affair she was struck down.  It is reported that she didn't die instantly but was conscious for a while after the accident - I hope she repented, for her sake.

As Christians we are often under pressure to conform to the wickedness of the day and persecuted for not doing so, but we will have the last laugh.  We are heading for Heaven's joys, the unsaved are heading for Hell's fires.  We are the ones who will be rejoicing for all eternity in the presence of the one who loved us and gave Himself for us.  As the Psalmist says:  "I will be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness"  Psalm 17 v 15