The Choice

We all make choices in life. We ourselves were the result a choice made before we were even born. Our mom and dad chose to have us, whether they knew it or not. They also then chose to keep us or abandon us. Tough choices.

Eventually we grow up and begin to make our own choices. College? Trade school? Some of our choices however have not been so good. You know what your bad choices have been. Do you regret them?

Life is filled with choices. Our choices determine our future and the future of generations to come. So why do we take life's choices so casually? Good question.

Sometimes our lives can be changed for ever by the choices that others make. Someone drinks too much and gets behind the wheel of a car. Suddenly there is a collision and someone is dead. A poor choice just became all to real.

The most important choice we can make in this life has to do with Jesus. Maybe He's not important in your life right now. He will be one day though, whether you want Him to be or not. The chance to make a choice for Jesus expires when we do. After that it's too late.

Take the example of an airplane. You can be on an airplane that suddenly develops engine trouble and is going to crash. You heard the stewardess tell everyone about available parachutes. You know that the parachute can save your life but at some point you are going to have to make the choice to put the parachute on. Just knowing that "Jesus saves" is not enough. You must put Him on. You must be IN Christ. The Bible says we must "put of our old self" (Ephesians 4:22) and put on Christ.

Have you made that choice about Jesus yet? It's easy to do. All those bad choices you've made? Ask God to forgive you for them. Seek God's forgiveness with humility and sincerity. If you do that He has promised to forgive and forget ALL of your sins, as far as the east is from the west. Then ask Him to become the Lord of your life. Learn from Him. Follow Him. Put Him on.

The choice is up to you. It's all yours. There are two roads you can go down. One leads to eternal life. The other leads to death. Like I said, your choice. Your consequences.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16

The choice . . . is yours.