1 Timothy 2:3-4 – 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Do you know how powerful your will is?
It’s so powerful that no one can make you decide how you are going to think.
Oh they can be convincing, even persuade you to think a certain way, but ultimately you have to go along with it. You have a free will. Choices in your mind are made by you. People can physically be controlled, but not their minds (unless their foolish enough hypnotically and then they still have a conscience).
God wants us to choose Him. He can’t make us. We have to seek Truth. It’s right there in front of each and every one of us because we are programmed by the Creator. We have a conscience when were born. How bad we dull the senses or get further away from God is determined by choices that are made.
No one can tell me that any teenager can walk up to a homeless person and start beating up just because they feel like it, doesn’t know it’s bad. They know it’s bad, they just don’t care. Their thinking is far away from God. And the farther away from God the worse the thinking continues.
God doesn’t want any to perish. He wants all of us to come back to Him.
2 Peter 3:9 – 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
He is the Ruler of the entire universe. Satan wanted to be that and not controlled by God at all. Everyone who feels the same way has the same fate awaiting.
Revelation 20:10 – 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:14-15- 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
It’s the same fate for those who rebel and don’t choose God as that of Satan. Do I personally think that those who are more wicked will be punished more? I personally do. I think it’s like rewards in the reverse order. Never-the-less Hell was created for those who REJECT God. The most serious of all crimes and people on earth today don’t even give it a second thought.
The Lord doesn’t want any of us to perish. Please seek the God who loves you and gave you life. Ask for forgiveness and accept Jesus as Lord who died for you so you don’t have to. Also it should be our goal that none of our loved ones suffer this fate either, without us putting our best effort forward.