What You Have, Revisited

[This is a reposting from over a year ago. A friend mentioned that they were not where they wanted to be in their life. They had lost their faith – and missed it. God has not moved away, and we’ve been told faith’s source: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17 KJV) For the most part, we’ve paved our own paths.]

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want." Mignon McLaughlin

"What you want is irrelevant. What you have chosen is at hand." Captain Spock

What do an American writer and a Vulcan Trekker have in common? Words that tell us we've made decisions that have brought us to this place in our lives.

Are we where we want to be? Are we were we need to be? At this point, there is no changing what brought us here. But we need to understand what prices we've paid to get what we've chosen.

One decision places us where we have chosen to be for all of eternity. Simply ignoring that decision is actually making it. Ignoring God's offer of eternal life leaves one without it. Not making a decision is a "No" decision. At the end of mortality, the ability to accept ceases.

Take time to read Deutronomy 30:10 - 20. In verse 19 He says "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life"

Then go to Joshua 24:10, where Joshua declares his own answer to the above: "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.

A moment, please. I heard you say that you do not serve other gods? Not those on the other side of a flood, or gods of Amorites? Those old gods? Well, how about the new ones.

The ones we've created ourselves and set them up as examples -- are the icons of Hollywood any different than the old gods? Do they not request your money, your attention, your following of their fashions? Do they not undermine the One who created the heavens and the earth? Do they not deny Him, use His name in vain, denigrate those who worship him?

Or corporate America's greed, where leaders are given huge bonuses for cutting costs by down sizing or moving jobs around the globe? Has money become a measuring rod rather than the means to purchase necessities for life?

Take time to choose life. Eternal life. Come speak with our Lord, come to know Him. If you have already done so, come celebrate life with us -- and I look forward to seeing you there, with Him.