Daily Devotional for Monday December 8, 2008
George Carlin Meets the Invisible Man in the Sky
(Philippians 2:10-11)
George Carlin meets the "invisible man in the sky!" Unless in the final moments of his life, he suddenly decided to believe in the Savior he spent his entire life and career publicly mocking, George Carlin's soul is now burning in hell for all eternity. It was been sad to watch the media coverage of his death, lauding him as some great entertainer, when all he did was bring filthy language into the mainstream while making jokes about the existence of God, Jesus, the Bible, and mocking anyone who was "foolish enough to believe in such stories."
George Carlin is the poster boy for other entertainers like Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin, but also those in your family, circle of friends, people you work with or go to school with, who have chosen to believe there is no God, that believing in Jesus is for the weak, and the Bible is nothing but a book of fiction. Carlin represents all of those people in your life who have chosen to reject the Truth and live in rebellion to God and His Word, and unless they turn their heart to Jesus, will die and be lost for all eternity just like Carlin.
The Bible says at the name of Jesus EVERY knee should bow, and EVERY tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. The actual Greek in this passage says MUST bow. The fact is my friend, there will come a day in the life of EVERY living person when they will bow their knee to Jesus and confess Him as Lord! The only question that remains is WHEN they will do it. Last June, George Carlin bowed to King Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord before he was cast into the everlasting punishment of hell!
God has given man the free will to accept His free gift of everlasting life through faith in Jesus Christ, or reject that gift. That is a choice each person must make during their life. The fact is, the Bible warns us that tomorrow is promised to none of us. That is why the Word says TODAY is the day of salvation. The reality is, you may not see tomorrow. So the ultimate choice each living person has to make is to bow their knee to Jesus and confess Him as Lord and receive God's free gift of everlasting life, or reject Christ in this life and spend eternity separated from God.
EVEN THOUGH A PERSON MAY CHOOSE TO REJECT CHRIST DURING THIS LIFE, THERE WILL COME A MOMENT WHEN THEY DIE AND STAND BEFORE GOD WHEN THEY WILL BOW THEIR KNEE TO JESUS AND CONFESS HIM TO BE LORD BEFORE THEY ARE SENTENCED TO ETERNITY IN HELL!!!
When Pontius Pilate died, he bowed his knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When Nero died, he bowed his knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When Buddha died, he bowed his knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When Gandhi died, he bowed his knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When Hitler died, he bowed his knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When Madelyn Murray O'Hare died, she bowed her knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When George Carlin died, he bowed his knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be Lord! When any person dies that has rejected Christ, before they are cast into everlasting darkness they will bow their knee to Jesus and confess Him to be Lord!!!
Sadly, there are many people walking this planet today who have chosen to live their lives in complete rebellion to God and to His Word. They have rejected Jesus Christ in their life and refuse to acknowledge Him for who He is. You can't force anyone to believe, you can only share with them the Good News and the truth of God's Word and pray for them to open their heart to that truth. But the fact remains, they will at some point bow their knee to Jesus and confess Him to be Lord.
I love you and care about you so much. For those who have already bowed your knee to Jesus and confessed Him to be your Lord, you have the assurance of everlasting life with your Savior when this brief journey here is over. That is why no matter what may be happening in this world, we can never lose sight of the fact that our hope is in a better place. Like those heroes of faith we read about in Hebrews 11, we long for a better country, a heavenly one. A place where we will dwell with God our Creator for all of eternity.
For those who are reading this today that have not bowed your knee to Jesus and have not confessed Him to be Lord, I am praying for you. God loves you enough that He won't force you to love Him. You can be like George Carlin and reject His love. That would be so sad since He loved you enough to die for your sins so that you could not only receive everlasting life, but know true joy, true peace, and true abundance in this life as well. I pray that you will take a moment right now and ask God to open your heart and then read the words at this link: http://www.liveprayer.com/bdy_salvatn.html.
May God richly bless you today and let me leave you with this most beautiful passage of Scripture from the Book of Philippians, "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." - (Philippians 2:6-11)
In His love and service, Your friend and brother in Christ, Bill Keller