SALVATION
Eternal Blessings of God
WHAT is the greatest issue facing man in this world? It is how to secure salvation in the life after death so that he may find his true abode and have a share in God’s eternal blessings.
Every man who is born in this present world has to enter another world after death. In this world man has been granted life’s opportunities as a matter of test. Whatever man receives in the next world will be purely on the basis of his deeds in this world. This means that in the world before death, man has been given a great number of things and opportunities, whether or not he deserved them. But after death, the criterion of receiving will only be a matter of his just desserts; nothing will be given to him as trial.
Those who are held to be deserving will be granted from God’s blessings exactly what they actually merited. But those who have done nothing to deserve God’s blessings will have nothing whatsoever in store for them. They will be compelled to live in a state of utter deprivation
The present world is the place for action, while the next world is the place for reaping the reward for one’s deeds.
To ensure that one is not deprived of God’s blessings one has to work hard for one’s life in the next world. Salvation would elude the one who fails in this matter. The next world is the perfect and eternal world. There are all kinds of pleasures and happiness in store for mankind. It is that world which man should cherish most, and it should be the place to which he most earnestly aspires. But the time for action to secure a place in that blessed world is not the world after death, but the world before death. The present world is the place for action, while the next world is the place for reaping the reward for one’s deeds. Salvation in the life Hereafter is only for those who prove themselves deserving of it.
