What qualified the sinner beside Jesus Christ on the cross to enter Heaven with Christ?

When we try to understand it is obviously the Love of Christ and our Father God that touched the heart of this sinner beside Jesus on the cross. God's grace helped this sinner to have his heart changed and to Love Christ and believe in all that Jesus said.

He is a great example of a person who humbles himself in front of God. This sinner is acknowledging his sins and is accepting his punishment and at the same time believing that Jesus is able to make it to Heaven because he knew Jesus was a righteous Man. This sinner is not just saying something out of his mouth. But he confessed that Jesus was righteous and that He did not do any sin. He was able to do this because he observed Jesus and His life. Now this man believed all that Jesus said and repented and asked Jesus to remember him in His Kingdom. Therefore this sinner also believed that Jesus was a King and Son of God, and because of his belief he was taken into Heaven. 

We need to have faith in Christ and believe in all that He said and if we are able to keep it till our last hour and remain in Christ's love, God will surely bless us too in entering His Kingdom.

Believing in Christ and in all His words is a continuous process. He calls His disciples as little children and a little child is always supposed to take steps with the knowledge of their parents, or else they might hurt themselves. 

This life on earth is a journey that we are taking to go to our eternal homes. We are walking along a road like a little child and the mind of the child is like I am able to take care of myself well and they leave the hands of the parent and run fast, unmindful of the dangers on the road which is full of snakes(Lies), scorpions(hatred), wild animals(greedy) and many such things. As a parent God is worried and wants His children to walk along with Him on this journey to our eternal home. 

God has a car and if we do not walk and sit in His car on the road how will it be? Do not think we can ride that car. It is very high technology and we have not learned to drive it. It is better we let Him drive who knows how to drive. But what it means to sit in His car? 

Sitting in His car means total control is in His hands and we are not taking any step, but are going forward in the direction that God is leading us into. I do not know what it means to sit in His car, but I would love to sit in His car and give Him full control on my life. I want to sit back and relax and have a peaceful journey.

But most of the time we are willing to walk and not sit in His car. That is ok, we are walking on our own feet, but let God take the directions.  

Enoch walked with God and He was taken. Taken where? Obviously to Heaven where God is and it is Enoch's eternal home. Noah walked with God and so along the journey God helped him build an ark that God designed to help him and his family survive the great flood that God poured on the face of the earth to destroy the unruly world. God wants us to always depend on Him for our new steps in life, no matter how simple one it could be. 

God once told me through the bible that He was going to bring a whirlwind on the wicked and whoever is on the side of the wicked will be punished along with them. God when He sees wicked people in our way to home will punish those who create problems to His child and the child must take shelter in God's cover and not run here and there to fall into another problem. When we keep ourselves attentive and listen to what God is saying, we are able to enter into His cover and be safe. 

I learned from one of the episode of my life that when I will face such situations in life again, I need to run for God's cover and get safe. He is our Tower and Fortress and our refuge in the times of trouble. But, why am I running for cover? It is because I was not near God and so running. I learned that I need to run to Him, but I also learned that it was better if I never left Him and stayed close to my Father. 

Jesus said problems will come in this world and no one is exceptional, but we have a place to hide and that is our great and awesome God, our Father Almighty and Jesus Christ our Savior in whom we take shelter. 

This is our confidence and hope that we will reach our eternal home where our Father God, the Creator of this whole universe sits on His glorious throne with the help of our Father Jesus Christ who leads us in every step of this journey on earth, provided we follow Him and not lean on our own ways.