Blue

How would you go about describing what the color blue looks like to a sightless person? Someone who was blind from birth would be unable to understand what blue was. If you were incredibly clever you might get a pan from the kitchen fill it with ice and water and then put the blind person's hand into the cold mixture. This might convey certain aspects of things that might be blue in color but it would not be the complete visual package. Bottom line, you still won’t know what the color blue looks like. 

We actually live in a universe where we can interpret four dimensions. Let's start by saying we exist as one point in infinite space. Now let's add another point to our universe and now we arrive at our first dimension which is "length". One more point added to the mix and suddenly we have our second dimension which is "width". Our next dimension is "height" which gives us our X,Y and Z axis or our three dimensional universe. The last known dimension is "time". What really is time? 

To have "time" in our universe we need to have matter and it needs to be set into motion. If objects are not moving then there is nothing to measure because you have to have time in order to travel distance. If we stood perfectly still somewhere in space and nothing was in motion, we would not feel the passage of time. Also, without motion, we would not have light waves or light particles so wondering what the color blue looked like would be a moot issue. It really would be  mute because we would not have sound waves either. 

Now let's think back to being blind or sightless and wanting to discover the truth about the color blue. What story would you attempt to tell someone to describe the color blue? What props could you use to convey the color blue? Just think about this dilemma. How to pass information from one known dimension to another unknown dimension? This is what I refer to as an extra-dimensional information transmission dilemma. 

Do you believe in a literal place the bible calls Hell?  Jesus did and he spent a lot of time warning us about the dangers of ending up there. Although where it is and what it really is seems a little bit like describing the color blue to a sightless person. Some of the biblical descriptions of hell  include a place where the worm never dies, the lake of fire, a lake burning with fire and brimstone, a place of wailing and gnashing of teeth,

 We are given a word picture of an extra dimensional reality that we cannot yet comprehend because I believe it literally exits in another dimension. Jesus was warning us of a situation so terrible, so wicked that the only reference point He had here on earth was the Jerusalem trash dump located in the valley of Hinnom (Gehenna). This place not only smelled bad, it was always burning with smoke and flame that continually filled the sky. This horrible stench would probably drift into the city and remind people of the dump and all the discarded trash as the wind blew it into town. In older times, child sacrifice to Molech also took place in this area.  

What word picture, from here on earth, would come close to describing such an awesome place? Think about the blind person's hand in the ice water in an attempt to describe the color blue. How would you describe a place void of God’s love? Hell is a real place that is void of God's love, His light, His warmth and His fellowship. No wonder Jesus was warning us not to choose that place.

Choose Jesus now, God has gone through much pain and suffering to keep us out of hell!
Jesus is the “Way” to God. He has said this about Himself; He is the beginning and the end, He was the one who was alive and was dead and is alive for evermore, He alone holds the keys to death and Hades. Let’s look at psalm 9:17-20 “The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten; The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. Arise, O Lord Do not let man prevail; Let the nations be judged in your sight. Put them in fear, O Lord That the nations may know themselves to be but men.” 

Jesus invites you to come just as you are. The Holy Spirit will draw and seal you, while the cross reminds us of what it cost God to escape the horrors of hell.  You don’t have to go there to believe it exists.