A man was walking through the forest looking for mushrooms. He had been collecting them for years, and selling each harvest in the market.
One day, while looking for mushrooms in all the usual places, he saw something unnatural protruding from the ground as he dug. It was the top of a clay jar that had been buried in some ancient time, and when he dug it up and looked inside he discovered an unimaginable treasure of gold coins from the Roman era. Worth millions of dollars he took the treasure home and he never dug for mushrooms again.
You can be looking for something of little value and in the process, find something immeasurable. Once you find the treasure, you will abandon the former pursuit.
The only way to God that would also lead you to heaven goes via Jesus, and this way can only be adopted by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. Let us examine from a logical point of view, that how exactly this all works out.
Before we unfold this mystery of God, let us first look at a few examples from everyday life. A 19-year-old guy was arrested for reckless driving in California, and was found guilty of breaking the Californian law. After finding the boy guilty of his crime, the judge fined him $100. But then the judge took off his robe, came down to the boy, and wrote a cheque of $100 to be paid on behalf of that boy. The reason for doing that was that the judge was actually the father of that boy too. But since he was also the judge, he had to do justice; and couldn’t let the boy go unpunished, just because he was his son. In the same way Almighty God, being the perfect judge, has to do his justice, and can’t let anyone undermine his justice and righteousness. But he loves us too; therefore he decided to pay the penalty by offering his only son Jesus on the cross, so that we could be saved from the punishment of hell fire. But he would do that only to those who would accept and trust in Jesus as a atonement or ‘Deeyat’ (Arabic) for our transgression of God’s law. Only those who would accept Jesus as their saviour, and put their trust in him will be saved from the punishment of hell, and enjoy eternal communion with God.
