Sometimes I think that we have too many choices. We have to make constant decisions and that can be exhausting. What to do, what to eat, what to read, watch and who to see. With so many choices, it can become confusing and that, coupled with exhaustion, can make a person just give up and go with the flow.
This type of attitude spills over into everything in our lives. If it takes a decision, best not to do so in case you make a mistake.
The problem with that attitude is that you don’t stay static, you fall further and further away from truth. The status quo is what we think it is.
It is important to sort decisions that are important from those which are not. What you wear and eat are not earth-shaking in their concept.
There are decisions that are momentous and those are the ones to focus on. Who you spend time with, what you read and watch have impacts on your view of the world and of God.
So much of what is out there today is anti-God. It is very easy to take these things in but it is not easy to remove them once they have taken up space inside you.
The most important decision in your life is that of accepting God. A non-decision equals a rejection. The status quo, in that case, dooms your soul to eternity in hell. The only way out is to reach out to the God who created the universe and everything in it. He is waiting for you with his hands held out.
Don’t consider that you have all the time in the world to make this decision. You may not have any time longer than this moment. We are not promised long lives, in fact, we are not promised anything at all as far as the world goes.
What we are promised is that if you reach out to Jesus, accept him as your savior and let his sacrifice wash away you sins, you will be forgiven. That means you will spend eternity in heaven with God.
If you don’t make this decision and your life ends, you will not be given a do-over. This isn’t a video game or a movie or television show where we get more and more chances to get things right.
We are given whatever time we have in life to look to God and see how dreadfully evil we are without him. We can’t save ourselves no matter how strong or competent we feel.
Not one of us measures up to the standard of holiness of God. Not one, no matter how good you think you are or how much good you have done in your life. Who we think we are and what good things we have done, absent salvation, is not a measure of holiness.
What is important is the decision to accept salvation. That is the only yardstick we can measure. We can’t make ourselves good enough. It takes the washing of our sins for us to measure up.
It isn’t what we did but what Jesus did for us that is important. It is this sacrifice that will save us from ourselves. Please make the decision to accept this free gift and know that, regardless of what happens in the world, your spirit is held safe in God’s hands for eternity.
Joshua 24:15
If it is unacceptable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”