A Place of No Return

There is something within each of us, that will take us to a place of no return. What is this thing that can do that? How does it work? Are we destined to live with it throughout our lifetime? Yes, we are destined to live with it throughout our lifetime, and what it is, is called your will, and the way it works is through our power of choice.
Life is filled with daily decisions that must be made. It’s our choice as to what decisions we will make. Whether they be good or bad, right or wrong. But what is this place of no return? Can the choices that we make, lead us to this place of no return? If we make the wrong choices, will we suffer for all eternity or could we possibly be given another chance to escape this place of no return? What if we make the right choices? Will we receive a reward? Will the destiny of our lives bring us happiness? Will we be under the guiding hand and protection of the Almighty God?
The answer to the previous three questions is yes! We will receive a reward which is eternal salvation, our destiny will bring us eternal happiness living in heaven, and yes, we will be under the guiding hand of the Almighty God.
But on that same note, by making the wrong choices, our eternal destiny can take us in a different direction. Our reward, if you will, will be in the eternal flames of Hell. Our destiny will bring anything and everything but happiness, and we would be cast away and out of the presence of the Almighty God for all eternity! Get the picture?
The key word here in both cases is eternal. What does eternal mean? It means everlasting, immortal, never-ending, infinite. Every human being will spend all of eternity somewhere. We all have an eternal soul and will exist in the place of our own eternal destiny, as a result of what choices we will make here in this lifetime on earth,.
But what about this place of no return? Every situation that we are faced with in our lives will require decisions and actions of some sort. For example: Someone goes into a bank, they are armed and have plans to rob the bank. Until they pull out the gun, hand the note to the teller, or yell at everyone to hit the floor, they have not reached the place of no return. Until they perform one of these actions, they appear as a normal customer in the bank. At this point, they still have time to change their decision about robbing the bank. Within themselves, they are fighting with the choice as to what to do. But once the gun comes out, the decision has been made. This is the place of no return. If they rob the bank, they may or may not get away with it. If they don't rob the bank, then they are surely going to jail for bringing a gun into the bank even in a failed attempt to rob it. In this place of no return, the decision made was ultimately to rob the bank, whether it failed or not.
In our life here on this earth, we have a decision to make as to whether we are going to give our lives over to God and accept his way of life or not. If we do choose to give our lives over to God and begin to live for him, we still have yet another decision to make. That being, are we going to sell-out to God, turn our backs on our past lives, and allow him to mold us and make us into what he intends for us to be? If we do, then we've entered into the place of no return. By doing so, God in turn will begin to commune with us and reveal himself to us, through spiritual revelations, deeper impressions in our thoughts, as well as removing the spiritual scales from our minds, in that we may understand his word more clearly without any deceptions from Satan.
Sometimes people will say in reference to being in their place of no return,” I’ve come too far and I know too much to turn back now".But that's what it is going to take for each of us, if we plan on entering into our place of no return with God.
After fulfilling the born again experience with God as described in the book of Acts, this is the element that will take us into the place of no return with God. As we grow with God after being born again of water and of spirit, something begins to take place in us. It’s a changing or a transformation of our inner selves in the heart and in the mind. It’s these transformations that will continue to lead us further into our place of no return.
To be in a place of no return with God, is an extremely awesome way of thinking and living. The excitement of experiencing the changes in our lives is somewhat overwhelming. To remember our past lives as to how we lived, what we did, where we went, what we said, and then to see where and what God has brought us from and to where he is taking us, is exciting in itself. By observing our own lives from time to time in this manner, this continues to solidify us in our place of no return.
But what about the times when we sin even after coming into our place of no return with God? There will be times in our lives that due to our weaknesses, we will sin. Even though we will face our weaknesses from time to time, we must, at that moment, make the decision as to whether we will give in to these weaknesses and sin, or whether we will allow God to strengthen us at our moment of weakness and abstain from the sin.
Many times we will be strong enough in God and resist the temptation to sin. But unfortunately, there will be those times when we will not resist, in which we will sin. But did you want to commit the sin? More than likely you did not. Then why did you? The reason: due to your weakness, you crossed over the thin line of decision, and allowed yourself to enter into that other place of no return. Yes, there is another place of no return for God's children. It’s called the place of temptation and sin. But when you succumbed unto the sin, did you turn your back on God and walk away from his place of no return that he has established for you? No, you just stood at the crossroads of life, lost your sense of direction, and took the wrong turn at the intersection of temptation.
You stood face to face with decision making time. Since you decided to flirt with the temptation, you slowly began entering into that other place of no return. There was still time to resist, but the pull of temptation was strong enough to persuade your will. As you yielded yourself to the temptation, you completely entered into that other place of no return and committed the sin.
God will give his children a chance to escape from that other place of no return of sin. It is called repentance. After we have committed the sin, God’s spirit lays conviction on our hearts. Then when we confess the sin and repent of it, God forgives us and we have then escaped from that other place of no return.
But there is a place of no return in which God will not forgive us and we would be destined to the eternal flames of Hell. It is a place called blaspheming against the Holy Ghost. Jesus said in Matthew 12:31,....but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
That is a place of no return in which no one should dare to enter!
But what about those people that use their power of choice not to serve God? Do they enter into a place of no return of some other kind? Actually, by them not giving their lives over to God, they are already in a place of no return without doing anything. As a matter of fact, every man, woman and child on the face of the earth are already in that place of no return, until they make the decision to give their lives over to God. As sad as it is, this place of no return that I am speaking of, is called Hell or the lake of fire.
Being born into sin, puts all of humanity on the road to Hell. In that fact, we have no choice at all. But God gave mankind a will with the power of choice to make one of two decisions. The first choice is to get off of the road to Hell, by a person giving their life over to God and allowing him to begin to clean their life up, setting their destiny for heaven. The second choice is the easy choice. Choose to do nothing. But! If a person makes the choice to do nothing, they are ultimately choosing to go to Hell because they did not choose the only other choice that mankind has, and that is to give their lives over to God and become his children. You may say, “but I thought that all of the humans in the world belonged to God. Not true. Humanity is a creation of God’s, but because we were all born into sin, we are not his children until we have become born again as stated in the book of Acts,chp2,10 &19.
Does God give humanity a chance to escape the place of no return that we are all born into? Yes he does. It’s called repentance, committing your life unto God, and accepting and fulfilling his plan of salvation. This is the only way that humanity can escape that place of no return. No matter what people may say or believe, there is no other way.
God loved us so much, that he wrapped himself in a robe of flesh called Jesus Christ. God himself knew that as Jesus Christ, his mission was to be born through the sinless virgin birth of Mary, teach and perform miracles, prepare his disciples to spread the gospel of truth, die on the cross for humanity's sins. Resurrect, and ascend into heaven.
Was God in a place of no return? Yes he was. But being a human being in the form of Jesus Christ, he had the same power of choice that he gave humanity. But his purpose and plan was not to live a long life as a human on this earth. His purpose and plan was to rescue his creation, humanity, back from sin and an eternal death in the lake of fire. Humans were never, again I say never, supposed to go to the lake of fire to burn for all eternity. That place was prepared for the devil and his angels. As Jesus, fleshly and human, he probably wanted to bypass the cross. Of course no one really knows. But as God, Jesus was obedient to his own plans to die on the cross.
God Almighty stayed in his place of no return. He was the only one that could redeem mankind by becoming a man, the lamb of God, die on the cross to take away the sins of the world.
What will you do? Will you use your power of choice to escape from humanity's place of no return and enter into God's place of no return, in which it will give you eternal life in heaven. Or will you choose your own place of no return and one day find yourself in Hell's place of no return?
Feb 2,1998