We have a reservation for heaven.  All paid for, ready to go.  Peter said so.  And he ought to know.

In Peter 1:8-9,  He begins to talk to us--you and me--about the man (Jesus) that he spent three years following. "Who, having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with unspeakable joy and full of glory:  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."   Again Peter said so, and again, Peter knew.  He was an eye witness to  everything that he wrote down for us.  He saw every miracle that Jesus did.  He saw Jesus alive and well after having been crucified, buried, and sealed in a tomb.

Think about it.  We believe in a man who lived 2000 years ago.  A Jew.  We have a written record, but we have never seen this man.  But because of the testimony of 11 disciples, a man named Paul and his friends Mark and Luke, we hear the remarkable story of Jesus' life.  They wrote it down.

The change in the lives of these men after the resurrection bears such a vivid testimony of the truth that they experienced, that it fairly jumps off the pages of the Bible.  There is nothing in recorded history that is even remotely like it.  It grabs your heart.  All but one of these men died for the truth they wrote about.   They went from confused and without direction, to passionate about the story of Jesus.  They changed the world because of what they saw.  They saw Jesus die.  They saw him risen from the dead.

And they wrote.  We are so blessed that they wrote.  They gave a trustworthy account.  And they all gave the same account--even though they were scattered all over Asia.  The truth is true.

And because of this written record, our faith allows us to receive the end of our faith.  The salvation of our souls.