“Have a nice day!”—said the cashier in the grocery store.
“Have a nice day!”—said the service-station attendant.
“Have a nice day!”—maybe even you said to your next-door neighbor.
Well, if wishing could make it true, we’d all have a nice day—or week—or year—or lifetime.
But it doesn’t work that way.
But we can have a nice eternity—surely—positively—no wishing involved. David wrote in Psalm 16, verse 11: Thou wilt show me the path of life: in Thy presence is fullness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. “Fullness of joy!” “Pleasures for evermore!” Talk about nice!
That “path of life” sounds good; how do we find it?
The same book, the Bible, answers that. The Lord Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. ( John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6).)
One way. One path of life. Simple, isn’t it? There are no great things to do to please God, no impossible price to pay for salvation. We have only to accept for ourselves the redemption the Lord Jesus offers us, the redemption accomplished by His death and resurrection, and He has promised that he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. ( John 3:3636He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36).)
Not a wish, not a hope or a prayer, only an absolute certainty.
Have a nice eternity!
“Show me Thy ways, O Lord;
teach me Thy paths.
Lead me in Thy truth,
and teach me:
for Thou art
the God of my salvation.”