So how do I choose to go to Heaven?
Your invitation to Heaven
There is a lot of things to understand here and some of it may be difficult to grasp.
Think of it like an invitation similar to one to attend a royal garden party and a private audience with the queen. The invitation has arrived and comes with a list of things you are required to do. You should read all the information supplied so you fully understand what you need to do. You should respond to the invitation by a certain date, there is a certain dress code, you should arrive at a certain time, there is information about etiquette and protocols to observe, you should come with the right identification, park in a certain place etc. Being delighted to receive such an invitation you would be happy to read and ensure you comply with all the information so you will be able to attend and meet the entrance requirements on the day.
Below is your invitation to attend Heaven and live there forever.
How much more should you be happy to read and comply with the requirements to attend on the day!
First you need to know some more stuff…
God created everything in this universe including you and me.
God loves you utterly, so much more than any person does.
God wants you to know Him personally.
There is only one God, and just to be clear He is the God of the Bible.
God is one being made up of God the Father, His son Jesus and the person of the Holy Spirit.
There is only one way to Heaven -
Imagine how special you would feel if a member of the royal family, a prime minister or president wanted you to be their friend and sought you out and made a way for you to know them.
Well you can feel even more special because God, the one who created everything including all the Kings, Queens and Presidents wants you to know Him and a has made a way for that to be possible.
God is now inviting YOU to come to know Him.
God created this world to be perfect, a beautiful place where we could live.
God made us so we would be His family, like His children.
He also gave us free will so we could choose to know Him or not.
Imagine what it would be like for us if our children only loved us because they were forced to love us. We delight in the fact that our children choose to love us freely.
God made us so He could not just love us but that we could choose to love Him back.
God wants you to come to know Him.
There is a problem which stops us knowing God
There is however something in the way which separates us from God and prevents us from knowing Him as we should.
The first people God made were called Adam and Eve. God gave Adam and Eve and all their descendants dominion, that is the right to rule and manage this world. Adam and Eve chose to use their free will to disobey God. Their disobedience brought a curse on this world and allowed evil to have a foothold in this earth.
The consequences of this are severe:
The perfect world God created for us to live in was cursed and became subject to evil, decay and death.
Even worse this means that we not only do we now die physically but we also die spiritually.This means we remain “alive” forever but eternally separated from God in utter misery.
This is why we live in an imperfect world today with all of the resultant problems of disease, evil, war, death and misery. “We” allowed this misery into God’s perfect creation.
God dealt with the problem and left a choice for us to make
God loves us so much He chose to do something about this and to give us all another chance.
A chance to truly live, a chance to know Him fully once again and have a wonderful relationship with Him, and one day a chance to live with Him forever in Heaven.
Just as whenever we do anything wrong there is a price to be paid to put the wrong right. It may be just saying sorry, or paying a fine or a prison sentence or even a death sentence.
God chose to pay this price for our wrong choice for our disobedience.
God did this by sending His son Jesus to live as a man on this earth and to die in our place. The sacrifice Jesus made for us on that day paid the price so that we would be able to know God, have a changed life now and live forever in Heaven.
Something we have to do -
We now are left with a choice, to come to know God and to live forever in Heaven or not.
To do this you need to:
Believe God exists and that He created this universe including you.
Believe that God loves and cares about you and knows everything about you.
Ask God to come into your life and tell God you would like to know Him and ask Him to become part of your life, to become both your friend as well as your God.
Understand and acknowledge you also have disobeyed God by living your life for yourself and doing many things wrong.
Say Sorry and ask God to forgive you for all the wrong you have done in your life.
Ask God to help you and show how to live your life from now on.
Choose to come to know God for yourself and to live forever in Heaven by simply asking God as shown below:
How do I accept the invitation?
You can accept God’s invitation to come to know Him and to live in Heaven forever now by using words similar to those below. You can use your own similar words if you just mean them with all your heart then God will hear you.
Dear God
I now believe with all my heart and mind that you are real.
I understand you know everything about me, everything I have ever done or ever thought.
I understand you love me and care for me.
I want to come to know you as my friend and my God and my heavenly father.
I am sorry I have not chosen to follow you before.
I am sorry for all the things I have done in my life which are wrong and have displeased you.
Please forgive me for all I have done wrong.
Please come into my life and show me how to live from now on.
Help me to “hear” when you speak to me.
I want to live my life for you and know in doing so for the first time I will be truly living.
I believe you have great things ahead for me in my life.
I confess that you are my God, that Jesus is the lord of my life and I believe you will now send your Holy Spirit to live in me and He will help me to live for you, and to come to know you and love you more every day.
I thank you for all you have done for me and for all you are now going to do in my life.
Thank you for hearing me and that one day I now know I will live in Heaven forever with you.
Amen