Want to know God?

By Jenni Ingram
Member, First Baptist Church, Gantt

My husband is a sweet man and although he tries not to show it, he is really very funny. We were talking with some friends the other day and one of them made a very silly statement.

My husband, Billy, looked at our confused friend and said, “The light is on, but no one is home.”

I know the context is vastly different but for some reason that got me thinking about the resurrection of Jesus.
He had told His followers, “You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, You cannot come” (John 7:34).

The lights were on, the sun had risen on that glorious day, but no one was “home” in the tomb.

Thanks to Jesus, His sacrifice and His amazing grace, the tomb will never be home for anyone who accepts His free gift of salvation. Thanks to the love of Christ that held Him on that old rugged cross, we will never experience an eternity in hell. We will never have to know what pain and suffering some will experience.

Our reward will be complete because Scripture also promises, “Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:6–8).

I have total faith in my salvation, I have total faith in Jesus’ love and I have total faith in my eternal destination. Do you? If you don’t have your reservation for heaven, I urge you to call a pastor right now or a Christian friend to discuss salvation.