God’s love for mankind is beyond measure. He sent His Son to die for everyone. This means not just for those that are believers but for all. Jesus gave His very life that man could be saved. He suffered humiliation, beating, He suffered being deserted by His followers and crucifixion on the cross. Why?

Because mankind needed a Savior, it’s just that simple. He left His word so that man can come to the knowledge of what He desires each one to do and explains how to do those things. He has also promised to come to retrieve man one day so that all who obey Him can live in heaven throughout all eternity.

There are those who scoff at the idea of wanting to go to heaven. They are convinced that this world and human knowledge is all that is important.

Humanism is the belief that the idea of judgment is both harmful and distracting from present concerns. In other words, one should not bother with religion, it is only superstition. Thoughts like these are not new; they were around in the days of the apostles. Peter told of a people who scoffed at the thought of judgment (2 Peter 3:1- 10).

There will be a day of judgment, just like there was a creation and a universal flood. God has left it up to man to make the decision to believe in Him or not. God made man free moral agents so that man can decide this for himself.

Most people do not like to think of the alternative of heaven, but there is such a place called hell and it does exist.

The choice one makes will be shown in the road they take while in this life. One road is easy to follow while the other takes careful attention. “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt.

7:13,14). Traveling the narrow road is difficult and takes work and concentration, but it can be done. If a person truly desires to go to heaven, they must let God be their “Pilot” in order to get there. Just as the giant ships are directed by a harbor pilot so that they can be moored safely, so must one allow God to direct their lives in order to reach heaven. One must obey the gospel and then live faithfully for God. Paul gave instruction as to what one should be thinking. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory” (Col. 3:1-4). Heaven is a place God has prepared and He wants all to spend eternity there, but it up to each individual.

The question that one must ask is, “Do I really want to go to heaven?” only you can answer that question.