WHAT WE DON'T KNOW WILL HURT US

What we don't know won't hurt us is an age-old quip meant to give our shoulders permission to shrug.  We don't know.  We don't care.  None the worse off is indifferent posture.

Yet, this isn't a true stance.  If you don't know that the eggs are contaminated, will that not hurt your child?  If you don't know the highway is closed due to construction, will this not interfere with your trip?  If you don't know that you are to have documents filed by a specific date or be penalized, will the $250 late fee be of no concern?

What we don't know will hurt us if such knowledge carries importance and impact.

I have a holy ache in my heart for every person to know the love of God through the resurrected Jesus.  Yes, I hesitate on many fronts to bring this up.  I don't want to offend.  I don't want to appear cheesy.  Too, I don't want to drive anyone farther away because they just can't take religious discussion.

Truth be told, everyone is headed for the grave.  For some it will be a sudden moment of surprise at an early age while others will have had much time to fathom such an event.  We must know about the rescue of Jesus for if we don't know it, this will hurt us.

It is completely unnecessary that any miss the luxury of heaven.

I plead, beg, and urge those who value their own lives to give this matter attention. The flesh part of us is not eternal; but temporary.  Cemeteries back my claim.  The spirit part of man is eternal.  It is this eternal fact of us that we must give supreme focus.

Earth isn't the real and heaven the blurred.  Earth doesn't come in oceans and mountains while heaven is a non-formed, gray, hazy, floatatious, and meaningless mist.  No.  Heaven is earth exaggerated.  Everything is purer, brighter, more glamorous, and of greater value.  The streets of gold language is to help us to imagine the stronger value of gold over earth's asphalt.

Yes, I agree that learning about God doesn't seem simple.  Sorting through what is truly of God and what is the figment of man's interpretation takes initiative and discernment.  It it a lifetime effort.  Yet, we must do this.

It will not do to dismiss the call of God.  No sinner is exempt from the need to be born again.  Not one.  No one is too far gone but what God will not rescue by His unbiased love.  The person of Jesus is foremost and center.  He really died on a real cross in a real country for real people who take our turns roaming earth.  We must get to know him.

If we don't know Jesus, this will hurt us in the end.  To know him is to know the most important fact available to the heart of mankind.