Good-O-Meter: "Good Enough," "I'm a Good Person," But what is the Benchmark?

By Elizabeth Nelson

If you were standing on a platform with your friends and loved ones and you were the only one that knew that there were poisonous snakes on the ground below, would you risk looking foolish to save everyone from a horrible, painful death and tell them or would you keep the truth to yourself, stay silent and let them jump down? Then maybe you do understand the mindset of us Christians, that have a heart for the lost, a little more. 

Maybe you've heard your neighbor say, "I've lead a good life," or maybe you're even one of those people that believes "I'm a 'good' person," but that's not what getting into Heaven and Hell is based on, "being good enough," or why did Jesus have to come down from Heaven and have to die at all? 

Perhaps some people actually believe, like this video with the Good-O-Meter shows, they can sneak into Heaven and think  that there will be a "scale," like a scale of Justice," that Christ is going to judge the way we lived our life and if our "good deeds" outweigh our "bad deeds," St. Peter will give us a "pass" and entrance into the Pearly Gates.

**buzzer** Nope, doesn't work like that.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."

For we ALL [not some] sin and fall short of the Glory of God, but He made a way to escape the snakes and the pit he'll keep them in, because he's already paid our ransom. Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 

"Why would a loving God send anyone to hell?" Oh, he didn't, it was their choice, if he had a choice all would go to Heaven," because God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and tocome to a knowledge of the truth, but He gave us a "Will" and they chose their path -straight to Hell.  So, whose fault is it, yours for not telling them that there is a poisonous snake on the ground, or theirs for not taking the precautions?  

Just as we choose our friends, why is it so hard for people to understand, those that are running head-long into hell were running from the most important friendship, the One that is  and always was patiently pursing them. Unfortunately, there is a consequence for their choice, because there will come a day [soon] when the lost that rejected Christ, he never rejected them, will have to face the Savior that they rejected. It's called the Great White Throne Judgement.