These words were engraved on the gates of Hell.
"I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain
I am the way to go among the lost....
Abandon all hope you who enter here"
The first three lines remind me of John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one goes to the Father except through me" and then of Revelation 21:4 where heaven is being described as pain, suffering, and tears being absent. I always hear Hell described as weeping and gnashing of teeth but these words on Hells gates honestly hit me even harder. Hell is described as exactly the opposite of love, Jesus and Heaven. So whereas Jesus tells us exactly who He is and what His purpose is, this place is described as the opposite of Him - bringing pain and abandoning all hope.
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I found this as a tough reminder of the horrors of Hell. It's hard to think about the hundreds of opportunities that I have had to share the Gospel and because of my lack of urgency I have failed to due such. I pray that in the future I will be shown just a fraction of how awful Hell is so, that I will be more urgent in sharing the Gospel.
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