Choices, Choices, Choices! #2

"On the wood of the cross the world was saved all at once, and whoever is lost loses himself, because he will not receive the Savior, because he falls again and repeats the fall of man."  Count Nikolaus Ludwig Von Zinderdorf 

 "There Jesus was nailed to the cross, and on each side of Him a man was also nailed to a cross"  (John 19:18).

Hey Gang:  Yesterday we talked a wee bit about choices and how they impacted on the life of a very famous leader of our country.  We also talked a wee bit about others who have followed that same pattern of choice making.

Now, I wish I could tell you that I am one of the few people that has never make a bad choice, but that would be the greatest whooper of all time.  I have run into people that I sense would try to convince you that they have never chosen the wrong path.

A few years back the Plain People discovered they were losing their young people to the world’s ways. They developed a practice in their church called ‘rumspringa’, a period of time when Amish young people experience the outside world before deciding whether they want to join the Amish Church."   In other words, it is a testing period where the young folks are forced to make some very serious choices.  If you ask College Deans to Identify the major problem they have with freshmen who come to their schools, most would say ‘They are not equipped to make decisions’, in essence they are immature.

In part one of this series, I wrote, "In every age of history, on every page of Scripture, the truth is revealed.  God allows us to make our own choices and pay the piper when those choices are contrary to His will. 

No one delineates this more clearly than Jesus.  According to Him, we can choose a narrow gate or a wide gate (Matthew 7:13-14), a narrow road or a wide road (Matthew 7:13-14), a big crowd or a small crowd (Matthew 7:13-14).  We can choose to build our house on a rock or on sand (Matthew 7:24-27), serve God or riches (Matthew 6:24), or be numbered among the sheep or the goats (Matthew 25:32-33).

And the greatest choice we will make in our earthly walk!  "Then (those who reject Christ) will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life" (Matt. 25:46).

Soooo,  Keep in mind, as your traverse this day, that God will give you the opportunity to make many choices, some mundane that have very little eternal value, but there will be choices made this day that we will give an account for when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ. The most profound will be to answer the question, "What did you do with Jesus?"   

Blessings,

Gramps