But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’(Luke 16:25-26 ESV)
There is a great divide that separates the child of faith from the child of the world. Like a great moat around the Kingdom of God, no on outside of it is able to enter it. We dig that great divide in this life, by refusing to stop worshipping ourselves, and put our faith in Christ. This rich man had lived life to bring pleasure to himself, and had built a great divide between himself and Lazarus and others in need. He spent his life digging the great divide, rather than a relationship with God and others that is eternal.
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