Day 1: Your Name Is Written

Reading: Revelation 21:22-27

Devotional: Heaven is not a destination earned by effort or assumed by optimism. John makes it unmistakably clear that only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life will enter. That truth is not meant to frighten the believer -- it is meant to anchor them. If you have placed your faith in Jesus Christ, your reservation is confirmed. Your name is there. Not because of what you have done, but because of what He did. Rest today in the security of that promise. Your entrance into eternity was settled the moment you said yes to Jesus.

Day 2: To Be Absent Is to Be Present

Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10; Philippians 1:21-23

Devotional: Paul does not describe death as a long, uncertain waiting room. He describes it as departure -- a moving toward something infinitely better. To leave the body is to arrive with Christ. That is not poetic language meant to comfort grieving people. It is theological truth meant to reorient every living person. When someone you love who knew Jesus took their final breath, they did not drift into darkness or sleep. They arrived. They are present with the Lord right now. Let that reality change how you grieve, how you fear, and how you live today.

Day 3: The Fire That Reveals

Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:10-15; 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Devotional: One day every believer will stand before Christ and give an account of how they lived. Not to determine whether they are saved -- that is already settled -- but to reveal what their life was truly built upon. Gold, silver, and precious stones represent the things done for God's glory and for others. Wood, hay, and straw represent what was done for self. This is not a moment of condemnation. It is a moment of honest clarity. The question worth asking today is not whether you will be in heaven, but what you are building right now that will endure when the fire comes.

Day 4: The Transfer That Changes Everything

Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; 1 Peter 3:18; Ephesians 2:8-9

Devotional: The gospel rests on one of the most staggering exchanges in all of existence. Jesus, who knew no sin, took on the full weight of human sin so that sinful human beings could be clothed in His righteousness. You cannot earn your way into heaven. You cannot be good enough, serve enough, or give enough to make yourself worthy. But you do not have to be. Christ already was. When you place your faith in Him, His righteousness becomes yours. That is not a loophole -- it is grace. Receive it today not with guilt, but with gratitude. It cost Him everything.

Day 5: I Never Knew You -- The Most Sobering Words in Scripture

Reading: Matthew 7:21-23; 1 John 5:11-13; Romans 8:1

Devotional: Jesus did not say "depart from me" to the obvious rebels. He said it to people who had done remarkable things in His name. The issue was not their activity. It was the absence of a genuine relationship. Salvation is not a transaction completed by religious performance. It is a personal knowing -- a real, living connection to Jesus Christ. John writes that you can know you have eternal life. Not hope so. Not probably. Know. If you are uncertain today, do not leave that uncertainty unaddressed. Speak honestly to God. The door is still open, and He is still calling.