We have a choice

We Have A Choice

All of our troubles and woes can be traced back to a single source – Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. God told them not to do something but they both choose to believe the serpent rather than God. The result was sin which meant separation from God until we choose to come back to Him again. In between times, it became necessary for God to open the way back to Himself, not just for His people, but for every man, woman, and child on the planet. That ‘new’ way was Jesus and His payment for our sin on the cross at Calvary.

We still have to make choices today. There are right choices and wrong choices and all of them have consequences. From the clothes we put on in the morning, to what to eat for breakfast – if we have any – are not particularly consequential choices unless we disobey reasonable instructions of course. Choices later in the day may be life changing – like when to cross or not to cross a busy road, or whether or not to accept the offer of a new job. Other choices are even more serious and can affect our eternity.

We have a choice whether or not to believe in God and through Him, Jesus, or indeed any other god. Even though we sometimes place people or objects in a place of worship where they become god-like to us, we still have the choice of worshiping or discarding them. It is the same with God – we can either accept His claims on us or reject them. However the consequences of these kinds of decisions are so very, very different. The decisions we make regarding God and Jesus, affect how we spend eternity. Decisions we make about other gods, can determine our decision about God and Jesus and can be, therefore, just as definitive. 

We can choose God and Jesus and spend eternity with them or we can reject them and spend eternity in that place called Hell. That’s a pretty stark choice but God still allows us to make it for ourselves. He wants us to choose Him, and to put Him first in our lives. He wants to welcome us to eternity, His eternity that we call Heaven, to spend with Him. Just look at the advantages – there is no death in heaven. No sickness, no fighting, no arguing, not even any cross words in heaven. Hell? I don’t even want to go there (that’s ambiguous isn’t it?) Hell is reserved for all those who reject God and Jesus. All who wilfully disobey God’s guidelines and, usually, worship a different god. Some claim they do not worship any god, but even atheists cling on to something, be it money, or science, or an alternate belief system.

God and Jesus have a claim on every single person’s life and eternity. He doesn’t want to lose anyone to Hell but I’m afraid it is inevitable. This is serious people. Choose life through Jesus and let Him change your life around for you and prepare you for Heaven. It’ll never be easy but neither will the alternative. You’ll all have to choose fairly soon as, according to my belief, Jesus is coming back for us all and then there will be a separation of church and state because church will be gone !!

Worth thinking about? I think so.