Moment 3: He's Making a List

It's the Christmas song words that made me briefly want to be a good boy: "He's making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice." Santa's all-important list that determines how you'll be treated at Christmas. We're big boys and girls now, and we know that list doesn't exist.

But there's an all-important list that does exist, and believe me, you want your name there. Jesus called it the "Book of Life" with the names of every person who's going to heaven in it. But a holy God says that no one is good enough to be on this list, and here's the scary part. The Bible says, "If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire" (Revelation 20:15 ).

That's not what God wants. That's why, when Jesus came, the angels said, "A Savior has been born to you" (Luke 2:11 ). The Son of God who came to pay the penalty for the sin that keeps me from God, now and forever. And the Bible says, "He that has the Son has life" (1 John 5:12 ).

God's waiting to enter your name in His book of life