Burning Plane and the Lake of Fire

Japan faced one tragedy after the other on the very first day of 2024! First, it was the Earthquake without a notice - it was of a natural cause that killed many people and the Second one was of grave human error - where 5 people of a Japanese Coast Guard Plane, who were taking relief supplies to survivors of the earthquake, were tragically killed when a Japan airliner carrying 379 people on board crashed on the Coast Guard plane, while landing. 

Life is not only fragile but it is also shockingly snuffed out without notice. While remembering the loss of human life and thinking of the earthquake affected people who lost their homes, belongings and everything they had till moments earlier, now stand alone - and then the entire crew and passengers of Japan airlines, which crashed on to the Coast Guard plane, survived in 18 minutes after the aircraft caught fire while landing is a reminder to all of us, that indeed, life is more valuable than things - anything! All the passengers and crew were able to exit the burning plane alive and unharmed, unable to take with them any "thing" with them except the clothes they had on. 

As intensely terrifying these events are, we can be left hopeless if we value "things" more than life. For the survivors, leaving every "thing" they carried with them on the plane, meant nothing, when their life which is more precious was spared in a matter of minutes. So, if this life which is here today and gone tomorrow is so precious, we certainly have to pause and think, of what it takes to save our souls which never dies. It is eternal. There are just two places our soul (which is the true "us") is destined for life. It is either Heaven or the Lake of Fire.

If we can get out of a burning plane in under 18 minutes just to save our lives, how much time should we need to take to save our souls from the Lake of Fire in which it has to live eternally. Needs no better lesson. This is something we all can act on (Romans 10:9). 

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. -Romans 10:9

JD