Today is a day I have been looking forward to for a while. I am going to the theatre to watch The Wizard of Oz. My date is my father. We share a love for the theatre and I expect it will be a fun day.
I woke up this morning and found the printed confirmation, however, in big letters it says "This is not a ticket" so I proceed to locate and print my tickets. I open up my email and look for them. I look through my current mail and found nothing. I went to my trash file and again, no tickets. As a last result, I went to my deleted file but I found no tickets. I closed the files and picked up my phone to call. Unfortunately, it was 8am and the box office does not open until 11.
I called my husband and he didn't know where they could be so I texted my dad. It read something like "Hi dad, I can't find the tickets." Of course dad being dad responded "Don't worry." Don't worry? How will we get in? I have visions of getting to the door and saying "May I come in? I purchased a ticket but I don't have a ticket" to which I am sure I would hear "No ticket, no entry." But I bought a ticket!!!
Again, I went to my email, junk mail, spam, recycle bin....no tickets anywhere. I feared I deleted them when we went to the theatre last month mistaking them for those tickets. At any rate, I have no tickets....but I did buy tickets!
I'm imagined someone trying to get into the kingdom of heaven saying "But Lord, I helped the needy" or "Lord, I helped in Vacation Bible School." While we may do those things, they will not get us into to heaven. I can holler all day long "I bought a ticket, I bought a ticket" but not having the ticket will not get me in.
We can say that we love God and we go attend church and we participate in Bible Studies but the Word of God is clear that unless we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ we will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
It doesn't matter that I purchased the ticket, if I don't present it, I will not get in.
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:13-14
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12
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