Is Death a Necessary Door to Eternal Peace with God?

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Imagine you are looking at a clock on a table. Behind the clock you can see a bottle of water. The clock is the time span of your life and the bottle of water is the eternal reward that Christians strive for. This is the way most people view life, I think. We live our life and after we die, we either get the reward or we don’t.

Is this the proper way? Jesus knew that he had the eternal reward. Should it be possible to know that we have obtained eternal peace with the Lord, before we die? Is that something that we should strive to know?
 
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Imagine you are looking at a clock on a table. Behind the clock you can see a bottle of water. The clock is the time span of your life and the bottle of water is the eternal reward that Christians strive for. This is the way most people view life, I think. We live our life and after we die, we either get the reward or we don’t.

Is this the proper way? Jesus knew that he had the eternal reward. Should it be possible to know that we have obtained eternal peace with the Lord, before we die? Is that something that we should strive to know?
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Yes; I don’t know about the ‘we’ but in the certainty of hope for those who have gone before us.
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Those of us who are in a state of grace are in friendship with God. He is always calling us to amend because of our sinful nature. Good works are a product of love. We have salvation freely because Christ died for us. It is up to is to respond accordingly, with prudence and justice. Glorify in the mercy of God, and it is much more difficult to stumble. Think about less how many good works you do, but rather as response to his love, and a way to keep your faith alive.
 
While humanly alive, we are in time.

We are not secure until eternity.

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It is possible to know. If God lets you know. It IS a grace that He can choose to give, and He has in the past.

Always strive for a closer union with God. He let St. Faustina know, for example, that she would not be judged and to no longer fear the judgment of God.

Another way to help secure your Salvation is to always be merciful and do acts of mercy, especially spiritual acts of mercy. Jesus told her that if people knew how to store up treasure for themselves in Heaven, they would not be judged, because their mercy would forestall His judgment.

Always be looking to do the Will of God.

If you are looking to do the will of God always, everywhere, and in everything - you are doing the same thing that everyone else who was predestined was doing!

Be certain of this:

God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble

Always fight pride as if you were fighting the Devil, because sometimes you might be.

And remember the words of Our Lady:

Luke 1:50
AND HIS MERCY IS UPON GENERATION AFTER GENERATION TOWARD THOSE WHO FEAR HIM

Trust in His Mercy.

As for Eternal Peace with God - yes it is a necessary door. We sow now. We reap in Eternity.

Even if He lets you know, you still have to go through that door to get to Eternal Peace with Him.

Hope and Trust. Always seek to do His Holy Will, which is Love and Mercy itself. Hope and Trust in Him.

Remember that God is Love and He literally loves you. Literally, and infinitely. God is infinite and God is Love.

I struggle with this too. Ask God to give you comfort and to help you trust. He always helps me. Sometimes I have to wait just a little bit, but He always helps me. I just don’t trust Him like I should. Pray for me please.
 
No! God wants you to have eternal life now so that you can be a saint now, just like the apostles did.He wants you to have the kingdom NOW. See Lk12:32. He wants you to enter into the promised land NOW. It is called “rest” in Heb.4. You can actually live in the Presence of God NOW. One who did was a 17th c French monk known as Brother Lawrence. You can learn about. him on YouTube. Check it out
 
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Imagine you are looking at a clock on a table. Behind the clock you can see a bottle of water. The clock is the time span of your life and the bottle of water is the eternal reward that Christians strive for. This is the way most people view life, I think. We live our life and after we die, we either get the reward or we don’t.

Is this the proper way? Jesus knew that he had the eternal reward. Should it be possible to know that we have obtained eternal peace with the Lord, before we die? Is that something that we should strive to know?
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Somebody told me once she can’t wait until she goes to Heaven. I told her why wait? She was puzzled by those words and asked me what do you mean? I continued saying why wait for Heaven when this Heaven can come to you. It is my understanding and what the Churches teach is we can acquire Heaven in this life. God only continues what is in us at death so that if Heaven is already in you than you will immediately enter Heaven at death. However if this Heaven is not fully in you than your Purgatory continues into Purgatory into the next life. The secret of the saints was this. Heaven had come to them in its fullness in this life. We can also acquire this Heaven before we die.
 
James_Tyler said:
Imagine you are looking at a clock on a table. Behind the clock you can see a bottle of water. The clock is the time span of your life and the bottle of water is the eternal reward that Christians strive for. This is the way most people view life, I think. We live our life and after we die, we either get the reward or we don’t.

Is this the proper way? Jesus knew that he had the eternal reward. Should it be possible to know that we have obtained eternal peace with the Lord, before we die? Is that something that we should strive to know?
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We strive to “know” we’ve obtained Heaven by working to remain in a state of grace. If we’re in a state of grace and are doing our best to live as God asks us to, then we can have a relative degree of certainty in our eternal reward.
 
“Do not invite death by the error of your life,
nor bring on destruction by the works of your hands;
because God did not make death, and
he does not delight in the death of the living.
For he created all things that they might exist,
and the creatures of the world are wholesome,
and there is no destructive poison in them;
and the dominion of Hades is not on earth.
For righteousness is immortal.” (Wisdom 1:12-15)

"Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” " (John 11:25-26)

“By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” (Hebrews 11:5-6)
 
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