The Most Important Decision of Your Life

What’s the most important decision you can make in your life? Going to college? Getting married? Having kids? Saving for retirement? What if I told you that all of these things, and any other decision you make in your life, pales in comparison to the one decision you need to make?

You need to make a decision to get saved by shed blood of Christ.

Everyone on this planet is going to die one day, unless they are alive when Jesus returns to earth to establish His kingdom. The second you die, you are in the presence of the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:6-8). At the time of death for the unsaved, it’s too late to make a decision for Christ.

While many in the secular world believe that after death there is nothing, the Bible tells us differently. There are only two destinations after death, and they’re both for eternity: heaven, which is in the eternal presence of the Lord, and hell, which is the eternal absence from the Lord and is described in Matthew 13:40 as “…the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Having someone pray for you after your death isn’t going to do anything to change your situation. Your destination is eternal. Where you go is your choice.

Just as the saints of the now obsolete Old Testament (Hebrews 8:13) were saved by faith and found righteous before the Lord, the New Testament offers a very similar strategy to secure your eternal destiny with God: believe in Jesus. And I’m not talking about the intellectual kind of belief, for “…the demons also believe, and shudder,” according to James 2:19. God is asking that you believe with your heart that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). Once you believe in your heart these things, the Bible tells us, “therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Your sins will be washed away and you will become born again and your eternal destiny with Jesus will be secure. No man can take it away from you.

What about other religions? Don’t Hindus and Muslims go to heaven for believing in their god or gods? While God only knows what’s in someone’s heart, we can turn to the Bible for the answer to that question. In John 6:44 Jesus told us, “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” And in John 14:6: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” I think the answer is pretty clear.

Give your life to Jesus today. Open your heart to Him. Tell Him you accept His free gift of salvation. Believe that He died for your sins and was resurrected. And once you pray all of this and are sincere in your heart, He will make you a new creation on the inside and your eternal destiny will be secure.

I believe that the end of the age is drawing to a close. Tomorrow is not guaranteed to anyone, so the most important decision you can make in your life is to give it over to Jesus before it’s too late.