“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:1-3 KJV)
I watch a lot of home décor and house remodeling shows on TV. I also enjoy watching the house search programs. The latter type of programs features persons buying homes ranging from $300,000 to over a million dollars. It amazes me that everyday working people, many may specialists in their respective fields, but not a whole lot of executives are on these shows and can afford to buy these houses. On the other hand, I understand it is relative; understand how the value of homes has increased over the years. For example, the home I lived in as a teenager was sold in the 1960’s for $7,000. If you buy the house on that lot today, you will pay somewhere between $200,000 to $300,000 dollars. It’s hard to put one’s arms around the escalating price of homes, at least it is for me. The house I live in now could be sold for 2.5 times the selling price I purchased It for in the early 1990’s.
Now I live in Indianapolis. The cost of a home in other geographic areas of the country is much more. However, I found a deal worth sharing. There are free mansions available, and the cost has been paid for already. Yes, I said “free!” No lottery luck is necessary! These mansions are free! No sweat labor on the part of the one taking up the offer for a free mansion. No work is required. These mansions are free! Let me say it again, “free!”
Where are these free mansions? Didn’t you read the opening verses? How do I know that they are free, and on top of that, no work is required? Read the closing verses. Now, I am sure, like most of the readers of Mark Writes, you have already arranged to move into your mansion, your free mansion, in the future. So, why not use this as a personal evangelism conversation starter by sending this to someone who has yet to confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus and have not yet believed in their heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, and therefore they are not qualified for a free mansion as of yet. Help somebody out, even if you just choose to send this to a family member or a friend who has yet to be saved! Remember, like Jesus, we must do the work now, while it is yet day, for nighttime is coming where no one can work. The work of which I am referring to is winning souls for Christ. You don’t have to work for the free mansion! Praise God! So, let’s get busy! Spread the word about free mansions being available. Be blessed!
“For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].” (Ephesians 2:8-9 The Amplified Bible)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King