In heaven you will find holiness; in hell you will find wickedness and impurity (Revelation 22:14-15).
In heaven you will find those who obeyed the gospel; in hell you will find those who did not (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10).
In heaven you will find Jesus (John 14:3); in hell you will find the devil and his agents (2 Peter 2:4).
I am fascinated by the “Why” of things. The “What” is usually more important, but it is also usually self-evident. I don’t need people to explain the “What” in most instances. I ask my children, “What are you doing?” all the time, but usually I know already — either nothing at all, something that makes no sense, or something that is taking the place of what they are supposed to be doing. In other words, it’s a “Why” question in disguise.
Here’s another Gene Stallings story. Apologies if this offends any Auburn people out there.
Coach Stallings took his national championship team to the White House, as is customary. (Or used to be, anyway. Crazy world.) Anyway, …
Have you seen the one in which a man is being attacked by a bull elk? The man is trying desperately to keep a tree between himself and the massive beast. Every once in a while the elk would bellow angrily. (Who knew a big deer, essentially, could sound so mean?) The man, wisely, did not choose to run in those moments; no doubt the elk would have run him down easily.
