Recently I was in a trip using a long-distance public transport (a bus). At the bus stop there were many people waiting for different busses. When the bus that I was waiting for arrived, another man whose bus had not arrived went forward and presented his ticket. Unfortunately, he was turned away as his name was not in the list for that bus. I imagine that a similar situation will happen on the day of judgement. Some preachers, workers of miracles, leaders of some big ministries will be turned away from the Lord Jesus Christ as their names will not appear on the book of life.
Getting your name in the book of life and keeping it there is not complicated. It is by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as the king of your life, that you become the child of God, and listening and obeying his word that you keep your name there. Doing God’s work, working miracles or helping people can never earn a person a space in the kingdom of God. While two people might be doing exactly the same thing in the house of God, only the one that is doing it in obedience to what God told him to do will earn God’s favor.
Doing God’s work when he does not know you is useless and a waste of time. Let God know you before working for him.
The bible in Matthews 7:21-23 ESV Says “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. (22) On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ (23) And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
*Know God before working for Him*.
From Simtandile Dlepuma. Stay blessed.