This past weekend I watched my wife play the old word game Hangman with one of our granddaughters. I noticed the rules were a bit modified. Instead of having to guess all the letters before there was a head, body, two arms and two legs, one had to get fingers and toes. Now if I add up all the chances one could miss, I think that comes to twenty-six. Aren’t there twenty-six letters in the alphabet? Hello! This is a game you cannot lose. Humm? I think the modified rules were made up by a very biased grandma.

This brings me to my heavenly Father. He also has created a no-lose situation for us. We not only get twenty-six opportunities to win eternal life, we get endless opportunities which stay in play as long as we are mentally aware. Yes, God does accept deathbed confessions. But how foolish it is to wait that long when one could be enjoying the blessings of being in the Kingdom now. Why wait? The only reason I could think of is people haven’t figured out that a life in Christ is the richest life of all. I have come to the conclusion that He is as biased, or even more so, than a grandmother.

Heaven is rigged. Heaven is stacked in our favor. Upon request we can be adopted into the family. See Galatians 4 and Romans 8. That makes Jesus, our brother, be our mediator before our Father. Any court in this country would laugh at such preposterous advantage to the defendant. There really is only one conclusion one can derive from all this. God is extremely interested in and desirous of our company just as we were reluctant to see our granddaughter go home Sunday evening.