GOD: Be on HIS side
On Super Bowl Sunday the editor of The Press wrote, “Whose side is God really on?” The editor ends with, “As for God and His favored football flock, don’t be surprised if He doesn’t even watch the game. Could be…swapping stories with a new resident — some guy named Banks.” He is referring to Ernie Banks, known as “Mr. Cub,” who died on Jan. 23, eight days short of his 84th birthday.
Although I am a geologist who earns his living doing Earth and planetary science research, I just finished a paper on “Heaven: Some Questions Answered.” Several years ago, I wrote a paper, “Everlasting Separation from God: Hell — You Don’t Want to Go There.”
Loving North Idaho and its people, I suggest that we need to be better informed about Eternity — our time on Earth is very short. I attended the same university that Marshawn Lynch (Seahawks), Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay) and Shane Vereen (Patriots) did. Although I agree that I do not know how God looks at the final score of a football game, the CREATOR of the Universe is intimately involved in HIS Creation. HE fills HIS Universe and is omnipresent-everywhere. Every breath and every step that a football player takes, and every breath and every step that a fan took to get to the Super Bowl in Arizona is allowed by a Loving GOD.
Please, if you have not read the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, take time to study who JESUS is. We spent so much time preparing for our vacations and football games, but little time preparing for Eternity. Even many Near-Death Experiences (NDE’S) document that your body temporarily dies, but your soul and spirit continue to be very much alive immediately after your death. Do not let your last words at death be, “If only I had known?”
With the free will that our CREATOR gives us, on death we will be either for HIM or against HIM. Be on HIS side! We either say to HIM, “Your Will be done; or HE will say, with tears, your will be done.” For the 114 million of us, who watched the Super Bowl, the bigger Game is, where will I spend Eternity?
JIM PEARL, Ph.D.
Hayden Lake