Our neighbor’s cat was run over by a car, and the mother quickly disposed of the remains before her four-year-old son Billy found out about it. After a few days, though, Billy finally asked about the cat.
“Billy, the cat died,” his mother explained. “But it’s all right. He’s up in heaven with God.”
The boy asked, “What in the world would God want with a dead cat?”
-Contributed by Ross Sams, Jr., Reader’s Digest, May 1996, p. 102
God is certainly not looking for a dead cat. Only one who has trusted in His righteousness, not his or her own, is welcomed to the place Christ has prepared.
Romans 3:26
to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
What will be your condition when the lights go out?
Give it some thought.
Gary