Our ability to choose is remarkable. However, many things in life are forced upon us initially. We cannot choose who will give birth to us, what town we'll grow up in, or who are family will be. But as we get older, our world of options increases - also increasing the impact our choices have on us as well as our loved ones.
CONSIDER THIS:
CONSIDER THIS:
The most important decision you will ever make is what you will do with God.
Not convinced? If God in fact IS who most people think He is, if God is who He says He is, then God is the most important being that exists. He is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. He is the one being who has always existed and who will always exist. He is eternal, all knowing and all-powerful. There simply is no greater being.
Some decisions are no big deal...cone or dish? ketchup or mustard? Whatever. But choosing whether to say "yes" to God? That's as big a deal as deals come! And that's exactly the situation we all find ourselves in at some point in our lives. God allows the free will to choose whether or not we will follow him. Oh, and by the way, saying, "I'll just make that decision later" is actually a decision in and of itself.
Why God gives us the free will to choose whether or not to follow him, to know him, to love him, to serve him, to praise him, is very simple in my opinion. I guess that's because I have children of my own, whom I love more than anything on earth. I do not ever want to have to force them to love me, to know me, to come to me. I want them to do that because they WANT to. I never want to have to force my kids to spend time with me in their free time, or force them to have a conversation with me. Nor does God our Father want to have to force us to come to him, to know him, to have a conversation with him in prayer. He says all throughout his word that we are his children. Why would he treat us any differently?
Not convinced? If God in fact IS who most people think He is, if God is who He says He is, then God is the most important being that exists. He is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. He is the one being who has always existed and who will always exist. He is eternal, all knowing and all-powerful. There simply is no greater being.
Some decisions are no big deal...cone or dish? ketchup or mustard? Whatever. But choosing whether to say "yes" to God? That's as big a deal as deals come! And that's exactly the situation we all find ourselves in at some point in our lives. God allows the free will to choose whether or not we will follow him. Oh, and by the way, saying, "I'll just make that decision later" is actually a decision in and of itself.
Why God gives us the free will to choose whether or not to follow him, to know him, to love him, to serve him, to praise him, is very simple in my opinion. I guess that's because I have children of my own, whom I love more than anything on earth. I do not ever want to have to force them to love me, to know me, to come to me. I want them to do that because they WANT to. I never want to have to force my kids to spend time with me in their free time, or force them to have a conversation with me. Nor does God our Father want to have to force us to come to him, to know him, to have a conversation with him in prayer. He says all throughout his word that we are his children. Why would he treat us any differently?
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink;
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more important than food,
and the body more important than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air;
they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes?
See how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field,
which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire,
will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?'
or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For the pagans run after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34
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