You wouldn’t be happy if you moved into a house and found yourself stuck with moldy carpet, a leaky pool, and a termite-infested deck. You would wish you had examined the house up close. When the house falls to the ground, you would beat yourself up for not believing the contract was legal, binding, and unalterable.

Lesson? Don’t buy a house God has vowed to destroy.

God promises that in heaven you’ll share a home where you can rock with an angel choir, a place where you’ll be eternally welcome because Jesus has paid the bills and invited you in.

God’s eternal home is filled with people who accept that great gift. The only other address in the universe is chock-full of folks who mock God’s warning and reject his invitation. When God shakes all of creation—to keep what’s worth keeping—only God’s house will stand strong.

Sound scary? Not if you choose the right house.
Worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.”

Kevin Johnson, Total Devotion: 365 Days of Spending Time with Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Bethany House, 2017).