AuburnChick's Adventures

On Saturday, Rooster and I enjoyed several hours of vegging in front of the television. We had several DVR’d shows to watch. We enjoy the same shows, so this can count as “quality time” because of the conversations that are often generated from the shows.

One of the shows we really enjoy is Criminal Minds.

Did any of you watch last week’s episode?

Oh.

My.

Goodness.

It was dark, as most of the episodes are.

Of course, there was killing and profiling and chasing the bad guy.

It was a difficult episode to watch, but then things got interesting.

See, the gist of the plot (sorry if I’m going to ruin this for you) is that the killer is killing people, then resuscitating them to find out what they’ve seen of the afterlife because, in his younger life, the killer had died.  He had, for years, been haunted by the fact that arms were reaching out from behind him, preventing him from going toward the “light.”

Deep stuff.

Rooster and I looked at each other in the realization that this episode was taking a very deep turn.

Two of the main characters expressed that they’d had after-death experiences, but both of them had been different…one of them able to run to the light and the other person had been held back.

Can you say S-C-A-R-Y?

Why, you may ask?

Well, if you’re a Christian, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Each person who doesn’t acknowledge the saving grace of Jesus Christ will not live in the light after he or she passes away.

There will be arms reaching out, preventing the unsaved, from entering heaven.

The Bible states that there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in hell.

I wonder if those arms reaching out from the dark represented the things in this life that had held the television show’s characters from accepting Jesus as Savior…false religions, selfish ambitions, belief that people can earn their way to heaven through good deeds.

Folks, there are a lot of misguided people in this world.  There are NOT many paths to heaven.

There is only one…through Jesus Christ.

This is not religious intolerance.

It is, quite simply, TRUTH.

Every time I hear of someone passing away…famous (Andy Rooney) or not…I wonder…

Did that person embrace Jesus as the breath left his or her body, or did the person find him/herself overwhelmed by a darkness that will never, ever go away?

This scares me more than anything in the world.

There are too many kind, “good” people walking around thinking they’ve got things figured out.  What a shame when they find out otherwise.

I hope that the Criminal Minds episode leads people to really consider what lies beyond this temporary, earthly life…what they will be running toward in the end.

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