What Price Will You Pay?

What price will you pay

For fortune and fame?

And will your words say

No to a good name?

Just one Earthly life

Is all that we have,

And ev'rything stays

On our lives' end days.

Is fame truly worth

A long-lasting curse

On one's only soul,

And going to Hell?

Riches imprison

In godless nations,

But bring great freedom

In God's own Kingdom.

What price is too high

For one who might die,

When souls are at risk

Of missing God's list?

We were each conceived and born

As either male or female,

Immutably eternal

And always by God so known.

He paid our price with His Blood,

Yet we often reject Him

To shed much innocent blood,

And bring great troublesome doom

Upon our world, our nations,

And even to ourselves!

Our nations are under judgement

For wickedness of all kinds,

The wholesale Holocaustic

Slaughtering of many souls,

In many ways probably too numerous

To mention in just this life, for various reasons.

Including, but certainly not limited to,

The unborn, the elderly,

The weak, the disabled,

The poor, and countless others,

No matter who they are,

And no matter where they are!

What price will you pay

To be where He will be

For all of eternity

Yet to come, you people?

Will you walk with Him

In a Godly manner

While denying your flesh

And walking by the Spirit?

Will you reject evil,

Including perverse things

Which would surely bring

You to a place called Hell,

Before you'd be forever judged

By the Judge of the Universe

And finally sent where great

Punishment never ends?

There is no price higher

Than the price for one's soul.

A single price has been paid

For everyone's soul by

The Only One who could pay

The full price of all sins in this world,

The Lord Jesus Christ, the ONLY

Perfect human being in the world's history.

You and I, in order to receive

Eternal life, and forgiveness

Of our countless sins in each

Of our lives here on this planet,

Must accept His willing sacrifice

Of His own perfect sinless life,

And follow Him as best

As we each can, while still here.

There is only one mortal life

That each of us have in this world,

And there won't be another,

Nor has there ever been

For any of us, at any time

Or place in world history,

No matter when or where we

Lived, live, or will live our lives.

Whether past, present, or future,

We have still only been given,

Or will be given, a single mortal life

On this still-young planet, to live

Either for good or for evil,

By either the Spirit or by the flesh,

Through God's grace and mercy

Granted to all those He created,

Is creating, or will create

To inhabit while we still can.

As for me, the imperfect sinner

That I am, I have long accepted

The perfect sacrifice that He paid

For my soul, in order to redeem it

From the just punishment that'd befall me

Because of my sins, which are many,

To be quite sure. He paid a price

He did not owe, to redeem those

Who could not fully pay their debts

Owed to their Maker for their sins.

Every day that I live, I strive

To do His will as best as I can,

Whenever and however I can,

But I do sin from time to time still,

For I am still quite mortal

And still quite imperfect

In my one and only life

On this still-young, but still-dying, Earth.

One day, once this life is over,

I plan to go to a place

Just across the River Jordan

With many streets of gold

Where untold menageries of souls

Are in Heaven's Aisles dancing

Never to be old again, but forever young,

Whether they're mere pilgrims

Or immortal angels traveling with God

All through history from Eden to Eden

As an eternally new Renaissance

That is most assuredly a-coming

On both the resurrected Earth and the reborn Cosmos

With the world and the Universe to come

Forever being upside up again

For all eternity yet to ever come without end.

For the price of my ticket,

So to speak, to enter eternity,

And be with my Lord and my God,

Has been paid in full, without a doubt.

By He who made me, on a hill called Calvary,

Through the shedding of His perfect Blood there,

To wash away all my sins into the deepest sea

Of forgiveness and forgetfulness,

Never to be remembered against me anymore,

And leaving me perfectly cleansed and worthy,

Only by His infinite mercy and infinite grace

To His own now-eternal kinfolk extended,

And not by my own efforts, to be eternally

Seen in His perfect and infinitely majestic presence,

Throughout the endless age yet to come

When all is made new, once and for all,

And all evil deeds and evildoers

Have been done away with once and for all,

Never to torment or harm anyone else ever again

In any way as they still do now,

In this lost and broken and dying world

That we now call Earth in countless languages and dialects

After the fall of the Tower of Babel.

My soul's price was paid, and accepted

Both by the Father, and by me.

Have you accepted the price for your soul,

And accepted what you have to do

To receive eternal life?

I hope for your sakes that you have

Or that you will, before it's too late

To do so in each of your own mortal lives.

For once you leave this world,

After your last heartbeat,

Your last breath,

Or last mortal thought,

You will not be able

To change the ticket

For your eternal destination,

For your ticket's price has been paid in blood,

Whether it's YOUR own blood,

Or Jesus Christ's Blood,

For you to travel to that destination,

Whether it be a ticket to the Pit

Or to Paradise, for sure.

Refuse to accept the price paid,

And to the Pit for eternity you will go,

Forever to be in an eternal Lake of Fire and Brimstone,

Never to be out of it again, or able to escape it

And its eternal darkness where you'll never

Actually be able to see anyone or touch anyone

Or eat anything or drink water ever again,

Among other things you'll never again be somehow able

To do in your eternal and inescapable

Existence's circumstances, for sure.

Accept His paid price,

And wonders untold

Will be experienced and seen by you

For all eternity yet to come.

You'll never hurt again.

You'll never thirst again.

You'll never be starving again.

You'll never die again.

You'll never cry again.

You'll never lose those you love who are saved again.

You'll never be out of God's grace and mercy and thoughts again.

You'll be with Him who made you and everything and everyone forever.

These are just a few of the blessings that your soul's price paid for, folks.

So what will your choice be, fellow imperfect and still sinful humans,

Will you pay the price of obedience to the will of God

By living according to His wishes and His will,

Through living a Godly life of walking by the Spirit?

Or will you and your soul pay the price for your sins

Of eternal death and eternal separation from God

With never-ending punishments too horrible to even contemplate,

By living against His Laws and Commandments, through walking by the flesh?

The choice is yours, everyone,

In your respective mortal lives.

You MUST choose life, or choose death,

For YOUR own eternal soul.

Nobody else can make that choice for you.

Nobody else will make that choice for you.

And if you do not choose to follow Christ and be with Him forever,

Then YOU and YOU ALONE have chosen Satan

To spend eternity with in the Pit.

You must choose before your mortal life is over.

For once you leave this mortal world somehow,

One way or another, for sure,

Whether through death or translation,

Your choice has been made, and it'll be an eternal one.

My own personal and eternal choice has already been long made, and I'll never change it.

But has yours been made, once and for all, in regards to eternity and God and all?

If not, then you'll need to make it soon, folks.

For you are not guaranteed a single second of your mortal life until it comes,

According to God's grace and will and all.

Choose, if you haven't already, and choose soon, before you can no longer do so!