"...the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness..."

                            -Joel 2:3 

Wow! What a verse! I came across this about a week and half ago and I have been wanting to blog about it for a while now. As Christians, God has placed before us something as great and as beautiful as the Garden of Eden: heaven itself. Now that we've seen what's behind door #1, lets take a look at the other end of the spectrum:

"What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death."

                            -Romans 6:21

"...I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;" 

                            -Job 33:27

It looks to me like we have everything to gain, and yet nothing to lose. It's heaven versus hell; life versus death; grace versus wrath; the Garden of Eden versus a desolate wilderness. Now that's not to say it will always be easy, but is life ever easy? We'll have hardship in this life no matter who we serve, but Christ is the only one that can give us eternal life. Will you come?