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I was reading in the book of Luke the other day, in chapter 12,  when I came across a scripture that actually makes me shake.  Jesus tells a parable

35 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,
36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

Then check out what Jesus says next

45 But if that servant says to himself, My master is delayed in coming, and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
47 And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

I read that and I am afraid.  It makes me fear God.  As Dan so eloquently put it on Sunday, “its time to stop playing ‘the game’”.  This life is not a game.  Serving Jesus is not a game.

I say this to myself as much as to any one else; its time to choose.  If we are not living according to the will of Jesus and his commands then we should quit pretending and just go all out for evil.  We might as well.  I mean, you can’t serve two masters.  Its impossible to do only some things God asks of us and not others and still expect to get to walk through the gates of heaven.  I ask you these questions;

Are you obeying Jesus?

If you aren’t

Are you really certain you will get to heaven?  Really certain?

I leave you with this, from Joshua 1:15

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.