Choices: Save or Delete?
Let me pose a simple question. Are you are familiar with a computer disk? You know, whatmost people still call floppy disks although they haven't been floppy for a long, long time?These disks have some interesting properties. There are a bunch of molecules organized ina specific way that form it. There is mass. It takes up space. You can weigh it; it weighs about2/3 of an ounce.What happens when you load that disk up with information so that it becomes just packed fullof bits of data? Will it get any heavier? No, because that which gives the disk value, that which makes it unique, that which is its essence, doesn't have mass.If you think about it, our bodies are, in some ways, not unlike the floppy disk. A bunch of molecules are organized in a specific way to form each body. Our bodies have mass, they take up space, and they can be weighed (although some of us would just as soon pass on thatpart). But when a Christian dies, in an instant, their spirit, that which gives each of us value, thatwhich makes us truly unique, our very essence, goes to dwell eternally with God. A computer user can put a disk in his CPU and make a choice to do a couple of things with the essence on it; copy it to the hard drive or send it to the recycle bin. In a similar way, each of us can make a choice whether, at the end of our lives, our essence is copied to thehard drive of heaven or sent to the recycle bin of hell.In John 14:6, Jesus Christ said of Himself, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Paul Neighbors
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