Friday, June 7, 2024
THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF CHOOSING!
Josh 24:15
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose
you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the
LORD.
It has long been
debated by theologians whether we have true
and free will to choose our way or whether we are bound by God to follow a path
He has chosen for us. One group says that that freedom of choice is absolute
and that we can first choose to serve God and then later choose to abandon the
Christian life and its heavenly destination. Literally, they say, we can first
choose heaven and then later choose hell. The result of this vein of thinking
is instability and uncertainty.
The other group is as
far in the opposite direction as it can be.
These believe that we only appear to have free will in choosing
but that God has predetermined not only our destiny but all the events that
lead up to it. We may appear to choose, even vehemently, but they say we are
not free at all. The result is pride and laziness. These become proud for
thinking that they, above others, have been pre-selected for heaven. Regarding
evangelism, laziness is the result because they think that others are
pre-selected for hell.
We may choose
education and that choice opens doors for us
that would have otherwise remained closed. We choose a life partner, and that
choice will determine our sorrow or happiness all our life. We pursue
employment with a certain company and that choice has consequences we could not
have imagined. What we do, where we live, and who our friends are all have
consequences.
Dr. Adrian Rodgers
said that we are free to choose but we are not
free not to choose. Then, after we choose, our choice produces certain
consequences. For instance, you may choose to leap from a tall building, but
you cannot choose to eliminate the consequences of that choice. So, choose
wisely.
19 I call heaven and
earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and
death, blessing and cursing: therefore, choose life, that
both thou and thy seed may live:
Dear Lord, before me today are many choices and many consequences as a
result. Give me wisdom to make right choices. AMEN
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