Now Arriving

The phrase “Now Arriving” is often heard while traveling via airplane, train, or even your cell phone after having typed in a specified address. Followed by the announcement that you have reached your “Destination”.

Everyone has a destiny. Some people believe they can choose their own path or
that they make their own destiny. Now some of that has a slight hint of reality
but the more Truthful reality is that we ALL have an appointment with destiny, by
which I mean to imply we will all reach or arrive at a final destination. Where will
I end up, where will you the reader end up, where will our loved ones end up?

There is an appointed time in human history, foretold long ago, of which we
all will come face to face with. No, I am not simply referring to death, but
more importantly The Judgement. Some will choose to stand based on their own merits of being good, bad, or any extreme in between, or some will say that they simply do not believe in God. These individuals will be found wanting. When weighed in the balance of a Just and Holy God, The Judge of Righteousness, these people will find themselves at a destination of eternal punishment and torture. We all – all of mankind – have been placed under this horrible decree. The wrath or Judgement of God abides; that is – it presently rests upon the children of disobedience of whom we all once were. All have sinned and fallen short. Sin is a simple matter of the human condition. And this declared sentence is only waiting for it be be imposed.

The only way out from under this sworn and established punishment, this divine sentencing , is to be redeemed out from under its terrible weight.

Such a person has paid the ransom, as an atoning sacrifice to appease a Holy
and Just God, this person is Jesus of Nazareth. He was and is Emmanuel,
that is God with us. The Gospel or Good News of John 1:1 states, “In
the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God,
and The Word became flesh and dwelt among us”. This same Jesus IS The Word of God and He offered himself as an atoning sacrifice for the removal of the stain of a corrupted human race.

His sacrifice not withstanding was accepted and validated only by His resurrection
from the grave. The tomb where he was laid would have been the place his body decayed and his bones only remained after his flesh rotted away. However, because He was found worthy, His offering up of Himself as a pleasing sacrifice to a Holy
God, he was not left to decay but raised to life eternal. And obtained a Name that is above every Name! We who place our faith and trust in Him, have a different destiny.

We have been redeemed, purchased as
it were, ransomed. He paid for our lives by offering His own.

Thus, Jesus provided a way for all who would believe in their hearts and
confess with their mouths that Jesus is The Christ – The King of kings
and The Lord of lords, He IS Messiah; fully God and fully man. The destiny that
awaits all those that accept this freely offered gift is – eternal life. Not one
of punishment and horror but one of joy and peace. An eternal habitation of
splendor and radiant Glory. A place of no more suffering or sorrow, or tears.

There is an eternal destination for every man, woman, and child that has
ever been born. The simple question is where will yours be? There are in truth
only two destinations; One with God, the creator of all life and living things
or one apart from God where only death, and damnation reside. Those that chose
to not be with The Lord now, will only realize when it is indeed too late.

So now is the time, today is the day for your salvation. For no person knows
what day or hour they will have to give an account. When will the departure for
that ultimate destination begin and what will the arrival at that destination reveal?

God LOVES you, so much that He died for you.

My sincere desire is that you would accept God’s free gift of grace, the
salvation of your soul.