How to Get to Heaven

There are two paths laid out before all of us; one leads to eternal damnation apart from God, the other leads to eternal life with God. Before we die, we must all choose which path we will follow. This has written so that you might know the way which leads to eternal life.

The Bible says that God has written His law on our hearts (Romans 2:15) and that all of us have broken that law (Romans 3:23). If we take an honest look at ourselves we find this is true. There are two facts everyone knows:

There is a certain way we should act
We don't act that way

When we don't act the way we know we should we are breaking God's laws. The Bible refers to the breaking of God's law as "sin". Sin is the path that leads to damnation apart from God. God is just and so He must deal with sin. Now someone might say, "God will simply pardon our sin." But think about how angry we get when someone who commits a crime gets away with it. Why do we get angry? Because a crime went unpunished. Just as a judge must deal with a man's crime, so must God deal with our sin, and "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).

But there is another path. The God is "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in mercy and takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked" (Psalm 103:8 & Ezekiel 33:11). He has provided a way to escape damnation. Jesus Christ is that way.

God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins. If you believe in Him as your Savior you will not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16). Our sin was laid on Jesus (Isaiah 53:6) and the punishment that He took on at the cross brought us peace with God (Isaiah 53:5). And just as Jesus rose from the grave, so will we be raised after we die and be with Him in heaven forever.

Jesus said, "I am the door [to heaven]. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." (John 10:9-10)

If you want to accept Jesus as your Savior you need to acknowledge that you are a sinner, turn from that sin to God and ask Jesus to be your Savior. You can do that by saying a prayer like this:

"Jesus, I know that I have sinned against you. I know the truth is that I have sinned by my own choice, and I am the one responsible for it. I know that I have earned punishment from You, and that the fair punishment would be death.

Jesus, I believe that You died in my place. Forgive me for my sin. I cannot cover or take my sin away, I am relying totally and only on You. You are the only one who can save me. I reject my sin, I turn away from it, I repent. Come into my life, take away my sin, and show me how to live my life in a way that is right and pleasing to You."