SATURDAY April 13, 2024
A Choice to Make
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ....
Ephesians 1:3
Know this: Before you came to Christ, you were master of your own life and destiny. As the Holy Spirit began to work in your heart and convict you of your sin, you had a choice to make. When you decided by faith to repent and confess your sin to the Lord, your life became submitted to Him. Jesus became your Master, and now you live for Him.
As a Christian, God bestowed upon your life many spiritual blessings. These spiritual blessings outweigh any material blessings. People without Christ often find happiness in temporal, material gain, but as a Christian, you truly experience blessedness and true happiness in Christ.
In the Old Testament, God’s people had important choices to make. They could either choose to live a life of obedience and be blessed by the Lord, or choose to live in disobedience and suffer the cursed consequences: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing...” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Psalm 1 has been ascribed to David, the faithful servant of God. As a young shepherd boy, he grew to experience the blessedness––true happiness––of choosing to delight in God and His Word. He wrote:
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper (Psalm 1:1-3).
It is important to make good choices in life. Why not consider the blessings of a life lived in close communion with God? If you make the choice to repent of your sin and accept Jesus Christ by faith, you will receive spiritual blessings and live a blessed life.
You can't change your past but you can change your destiny by deciding for Christ.
~Billy Graham~
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