Where are you going?

I remember watching our youngest as he began to walk.  When they find their walking legs, they take off.  I would always ask "Where are you going son?"  It was fun to watch him as he experienced a new found freedom. 


In adulthood, that becomes a deeper question not only for our children but for adults as well.  We quickly discover the power of peer pressure. We have all fallen to it at one time or another.  Oh some might say "not me" but think about the time you committed to something and someone said "oh come on...just one!'


Why is it that we fall to something we are so strongly against?  I grew up in a time when peer pressure was intense and yet today, I always hear kids say "But you don't know what it's like."  Oh I beg to differ. 


I did not know that I would one day be in law enforcement and make it a thirty year career.  I did not know that I would see death and destruction due to violence and bad choices, I did not know how children would lose in life because of irresponsible parents and how I might impact them. 


What I did know was that I was going to make something of my life.  I knew where I was going!


Michael Strahan of Kelly and Michael was telling a story one day about his high school days right here in Houston, Texas.  He told of how his friends would always try to persuade him into a different life outside of football.  Football was his passion and the direction some of his peers were heading would not have been conducive to a possible NFL career.


Michael said he told his friends "...you go ahead and do what you're gonna do without me 'cause you haven't seen where I'm going!"


It is important to know "where you are going."  The actions we take in this life will determine how we spend eternity.  So when others try to convince you that what you believe about Christ is wrong or that Christianity has too many rules or that Heaven and Hell are figments of your imagination you could surely say "you go ahead and believe what your gonna believe 'cause you haven't seen where I'm going!"


I plan on spending eternity with the one who died in my place, the one who shed his blood to save me from my sins, the one who loves me unconditionally...where are you going?


Now brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.  By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you.  Otherwise you have believed in vain.  For what I received, I passed on to you as of first importance:  that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day.  1 Corinthians 15:1-3


God has given us eternal life and this life is in his Son.  Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.  1 John 5:11-12