Choosing's No Joke

Some think the child of God ought lighten up,
That he e'er lives in too gloomy a vein,
He cannot enjoy Thalia's* comic cup,
A killjoy, who the world's fun does constrain.
Well, okay, let's call God 'the man upstairs';
Satan can be 'Old Scratch', or 'that old boy':
'His number's up' refers to death's affairs;
'Sowing wild oats' girl's purity destroy.
Why not wrestle an angry rattlesnake;
Inhale radiation from chest x-ray;
Drink battery acid your thirst to slake;
Or eat the hive, the honey to betray?
The choice you must make means so very much,
Is no joke, and can't be considered such!
*Greek Muse of Comedy

Dear ones, please join me in a numbers game; there is a point, never fear! God created the universe. About 14 billion years ago He spoke and the breath that powered His word was pure energy exhaled into a void. The energy became so hot, gases were formed. Swirling in a soupy mix that was boiling hot, atoms of gas met each other and stuck together. In less than a second after He spoke the whole mass expanded outward at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. Clumps of atoms grew bigger and became molecules; more hot gases were generated. The clumps grew into solids, then asteroids, stars, galaxies and heavenly bodies

After 10 billion years, there were millions of stars, each boiling with the gases that continued to produce solids; one of the stars was the sun, and our solar system with planets orbiting the sun existed; earth was a planet, the only one in the whole gigantic system that men were able to live on in comfort. Man, animals, and plants were created and multiplied.

Why did God go to those unimaginable lengths for such a small number of men? Say a total of 20 billion people will live and die on earth before it is destroyed. That's not a large number considering God's enormous expense in creating the place for them to live. No dollar amount on the cost of the universe is possible; let's just say it cost one billion trillion dollars, which is a 1 followed by 21 zeroes. He did it so that each person could choose to go to heaven or ignore Jesus and go to the other place for eternity.

Now let's guess how many will truly believe in Jesus as Lord---say, one million. That would be 1 person out of 20 thousand choose to be with God. In terms of dollars, God would have spent one thousand trillion dollars for each person saved. Right now our national debt is 10.5 trillion dollars; so He would have paid 10 times our national debt for each person saved. Do you think He's serious about salvation? There's nothing about our choice, the one each of us HAS to make while he lives, to joke about, is there?