Our church is performing a pretty extensive evangelistic drama this week.

It’s called The Battle:  Rise of Darkness.  And it’s incredibly bold and creates and atmosphere where people are faced with the reality of life, death and eternity.

Here’s the concept:  The Battle has several scenarios.  In each of these scenes, someone dies.  Sometimes it’s several people that die.  All of a sudden, they are in the presence of Christ, and whether they enter heaven or are cast into hell depends on how they lived their life.

With several scenes portraying different tragedies, this drama is a major dose of the spiritual reality that we often ignore.  Some of the include a car accident, a gang fight, a robbery gone bad, an earthquake, a plane crash, and a young child who gets a hold of a gun.

Like I said, it’s pretty intense.

While I’ve never really been too excited about church dramas, this one has had extremely good results every time we’ve performed it.  People see the need for Christ when they are faced with the spiritual battle that is going on around us.

This battle is real.  Paul tells us in the New Testament that it isn’t a battle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces.  And our very souls hang in the balance.

Imagine a baby in the womb.

As this baby grows and develops, she grows lungs; but she doesn’t breathe.  He grows eyes; but they stay closed and unused.  And many other things are happening to this baby that he doesn’t understand.

But one day, life in the womb comes to an end.  That baby is born.  And, all of a sudden, the lungs start to pump air into the baby’s bloodstream.  His eyes open and he can see.

What was once unused is now used.  It was being prepared for a greater reality than simply life inside the womb.

What if this life is like life in the womb?  What if all the things that happen to us, the trials, the tribulations, the joys, what if those are simply preparing us for a greater reality than we now experience?

What if, as we experience those things, we are to respond in ways that make us ready for life after this reality?

I think that’s a pretty apt analogy for this life compared to eternity.  The question that we have to ask ourselves is this:  Am I ready?  If my life were to end right now, and I find myself standing before the throne of God, what would he say to me?

And that leads me to my question for you:  Are you ready?  Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.