Will you get there?

The other day I heard a Delta television commercial that stated "A route map shows you where we go."  Instinctively I thought "But how will you get there?"  My husband and I have been pricing rates to San Diego and they are through the roof.  One however is quite reasonable.  We drive to Austin, load up, fly to Houston change planes, then head to San Diego.  Very reasonable price, but not very logical. 

So I beg the question...how will you get there?  Again, from 1984-1987, this same airline used the slogan "Delta gets you there."  I just want to know how?

As I was watching a documentary yesterday, they were interviewing a gentleman who was working a mine.  There was an accident and twelve men were trapped.  Rescuers worked valiently to save the men.  Unfortunately, a line had broken and water threatened to drown the men.  It showed several tunnels and the men found refuge in one of them. 

As the water threatened, the men had run out of options for stopping the threat of drowning.  They established themselves in a corner awaiting their demise, they were now gasping for air.  They could now feel the sweet vibration of drills attempting to reach them.  The resuce team was able to send oxygen through a small opening where one of the trapped men said "It felt like someone had released me from a strong strangulation hold."

Continuing to tell the story, he felt like death was imminent.  He took a pen along with the other eleven men and they wrote letters to their families.  His father-in-law was trapped with him and he feared the loss of her father and her husband would be an overwhelming loss for his wife. 

Having secured the letters in plastic, he approached another man and asked him "Do you think I will go to heaven.?"  The man replied "...you have been a good guy and lived a good life, I believe you will go to heaven." 

The key words in that statement were "I believe."  At that moment, I practiced the words I would have shared.  I grabbed into the depth of my mind and thought of John 3:16, Romans 3:23, Romans 5:8 and Acts 4:12.  My thought was, this man is going to die believing that "living a good life" will get you to heaven because someone believed that's all it would take and that is false. 

Obviously, they were rescued as they lived to participate in the documentary.  My prayer for this man is that he will find Jesus Christ and remove all doubt of the question "Will I get to Heaven."

There may be options to getting to another city, another state, another country but when it comes to heaven and meeting with our Lord....there is only one way!  Will you get there? 

Salvation if found in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given to man by which we must be saved.  Acts 4:12

This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. For the wages of sin is death but the gift ot God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 6:22-23