Living the “good life” means far more than doing “good deeds” and avoiding trouble. Good sense demands we make plans about where we will spend eternity. Most people plan more about where they will spend their next vacation than where they will go when this life is over.

(There’s much talk today that Jesus may soon return. It may or may not be in our lifetime, but we are wise if we are ready.)

 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.