Making amends was not much of a consideration in the past. All one had to do was search for different grazing grounds. Not sweating the small stuff seemed to be good advice, but the small stuff grew into monsters. Words left unsaid reached their expiration date. Unaccomplished goals couldn’t be realized because older bodies wouldn’t cooperate. Not taking life too seriously was only a theory that really has never been proven in the test tube of life.
That is the unfortunate conclusion of many as they face the uncertainty of eternity. They seem to be rolling the dice and hoping to win the big one. They put all their chips in and wait for the final card to be turned. The tragic conclusion is to be left with nothing to show for life. Betting on a losing horse spells disaster.
There is a better way:
Acts 4:12
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Matthew 19: 25-26
“When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
The game has been rigged against us by Adam, but Christ is there for winners.
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned
Romans 5:15
But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
Give it some thought, gambler.
Gary