I flipped on ESPN last night about four minutes after Barry Bonds hit home run #756, and although most of the coverage through the evening was very positive, there was always the specter of Bond's alleged illegal use of steroids to make it all possible. Over the last couple weeks many fans in opponents' ballparks have been holding up small signs with nothing but a large asterisk, indicating that when Bond's feat is recorded it should include an asterisk with a message that this record is suspect, broken during the "steroid age" of baseball. As I laid in bed last night, I was reminded of 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 (Dewey taught on this passage on July 8th), where it says:
12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
There's so much I don't know about heaven, but I know I don't want to be like the guy in verse 15, "suffering loss" and barely "escaping through the flames". There's something sad about being saved from condemnation and enjoying all the blessings of salvation, only to spend your whole life on things that will just "burn up" in the revealing fire.
I don't want to be in the Lamb's Book of Life with an asterisk next to my name--Well, it's good to see Brian here, but he sure stinks like smoke. Statistically I'm about half-way through my brief time on earth, and in another 40 or 50 years I'll be starting my first billion years in heaven. I want to make this time count for the Lord's glory and kingdom! How about you?
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