Do you remember eating a now or later as a kid?
The person who gave us the candy would say, you can eat it now or later. Of course we would eat it now and it would last a long time.
Well, the gift that we receive from God is not for now or later. It is for now and later. This gift is eternal life. When we repent and trust Christ by faith for our salvation, he gives us this gift of eternal life. Some people feel this is just something far off, but it is not. We were all made to live eternally. We will live forever in one of two places. Some who don't repent and trust Christ will spend eternity separated from God in a nasty place called hell. Those who have repented will spend eternity in heaven and the new earth with God.
NOW, you have an opportunity to choose where you will spend eternity. The second book of Corinthians chapter six and verse two states: In a favorable time I listened to you and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
LATER, there might not be a later. Choose this day whom you will serve. Will it be yourself, wife, kids, carrier? These will not last. Without a relationship with Jesus there is no life.
Taste and see that the Lord is good. Trust in him and he will not fail you.
