If you died today would you choose Heaven or Hell?
I was thinking today that God has given us all free will. Most people think of free will in life. I know most people have heard of the Devine Mercy of our Lord. Like that song say Our God is an Assume God! He wants all souls to go to him. I was reading about St Catherine. She was talking to God and he told her that even in death we choose to go to Heaven or Hell. St Catherine did not and could not believe that any soul would want to be without God. So God gives her a soul to bring into heaven. The soul has never known love and is place in the very center of Heaven. The soul cries out to God that why is being tortured. So then St Catherine takes the soul and places it nowhere. It is neither in heaven or hell. The soul cries out again to God. Why do you let this stupid woman play with me. Send me to hell where I belong. So then God takes the soul back to Hell. I know I have told this story before. It is a good story to meditate on. I thought about it for a long time. If you believe in the stories of the saints or not. This is still a good story to meditate on. Why would any soul want to go to Hell? I think allot of the time we as people don't even want to believe in the Devil, Hell or even Evil. We try not even to think that we or any one we know will die. We all will go down this path. We all came in this world alone and we will leave alone. It is a scary thought. My mother in law is Baptist and said that she used to worry allot about this. but once she was baptized that calmed her fears. I on the other hand was already baptized and confirmed and was crazy scared of death all together. I know it was my conscience. I had not been to confession and was living a life of sin. It had to be a grace from God to see that I was living this way because otherwise the world told me that I was a "Good" person. That is what the world calls good. It was not until I went back to church. Not just going to church on Sunday but living a worldly life. But really living my faith!!! My Catholic Faith. Well, I prayed and prayed about my fear of death. I was having panic attacks and not sleeping. It was really bad!! Then one day! I was driving home and God told me this. Not like I heard a voice out loud or he sat next to me and I saw him. This happened in my mind as I was driving.God said to me. "Angie, before you came back to me. If you had died would you have choose Heaven or Hell?" I know God granted me the grace to think of how I was, how I thought, just the person I was. I remembered thinking. "when you die and go to heaven, all you will do is pray and worship God 24/7" I remember I thought, "how boring is that?" "I don't want to JUST pray and Worship GOD!" I thought "I would be bored to death doing that" I really did think that. Then I thought, then, the person I was, would not be able to look God in the face and be with him. he would be in his Glory with Grace abundantly and an unfathomable about of Love. I would fall so short from him that I would tell him that I was not worthy to be in his presence. So I would have choose HELL!!! Can you believe that!!!Can you believe that me, at that time thought I was so a GOOD person!!! (according to the world) I was so opposite of God but the world called me good. If you could smell my soul, it might have smelled like writing flesh. So God showed me that, then, I would have gone to Hell. Not because He wanted me to go to Hell but because I would have choose it!!! That scared me. It scared me because it was not until I turned 30 by way of my sisters confirmation! that I was brought back into the church. It was with LOTS of PRAYER, GRACE and LOVE, that our dear Lord brought me home to his fold.Now, I am in the know! God has enlighten my mind. He teaches me all the time. On the radio, TV, books, and in life. You know the bible says, "To whom much is given, much is expected" So, God is not just asking the people who have money to give money. He is asking those know his word, his teaching and love to spread this wealth of knowledge to others. So now I am comforted that I have a better chance of going to heaven. I can give myself the same test the Lord gave me. Now, today if I would die and all I would do in Heaven is pray and worship God forever! I would Love it. I feel a love inside of me at the thought! I feel a love inside of me like a fire. I fire that is so strong, that my soul wants to leap out of my body and join it's creator! Now I have a job though. I am not the sinner who waits till the last min. to ask for forgiveness. I already asked and now the Lord tells me I have a mission. I don't exactly know what it is, but even if it is only that I pray. Then I hope the Holy Spirit helps me to complete this to the best of his ability through me.....
You can take the Heaven or Hell test. Ask yourself. If you died today would you want to praise and worship God forever? Ask yourself honestly? What do you do now with your time? You will be the same soul just outside of your body. So if now you are not interested in God or Church then when you die it will be no different. If you find yourself like I was. Then you still have time to change. Open you heart to Jesus. Ask him to come into your heart and help you be the person he wants. Remember, As Mother Angelica says. "if you go to Hell, you have to look at the devils ugly face forever!!!"....
Oh, father Ernie told me this the other day in a class. it says in the Catechism of the Catholic church. That when God returns at the end of time it will be on Easter. I have to read it again. But it is very interest and it makes allot of sense.


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