Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“ARE YOU GOING TO HEAVEN?”

The overwhelming majority believe that they are going to heaven, if there is indeed a heaven! Approximately 52% of the world’s population believe in heaven. These numbers are compiled from a survey across 26 countries. The percentage was higher among countries with heavy Christian and Muslim populations. (Jackson, 2023)

“Among those who do believe in heaven or hell, 82 percent expect to wind up in heaven at the end of their lives; two percent says they expect to end up in hell. Nine percent don’t think they will be in either place.” (CBS NEWS, 2014)

So out of those statistics, over half of the world’s population believe in heaven, and of that half, 82% believe they are going to make it to heaven. Among people who are confident they’ll reach Heaven, their reasons vary. Close to half (43%) believe their place in Heaven is assured because they’ve admitted their sins and have accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Some believe their efforts to follow the Ten Commandments (15%) or simply being a good person (15%) are enough. Meanwhile, 6% trust that God’s love for everyone means He wouldn’t let anyone be lost. (Barna Group, 2003)

Are you going to heaven? I do not have the authority to tell you that you are or that you are not. But there is an authority, the final authority, that does tell us how to know we are going to heaven, and that is the Holy Bible!

Acts 4:12—”Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Ephesians 2:8, 9–“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”

Romans 10:9—”That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”