Time To Choose

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your father served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. - Joshua 24:15.

Where are you going? Can you hear the still small voice? You can pretend you never heard and walk right into the jaws of sin. Turn back before it is too late. The Word of God says in James 1:14, "But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death." And "the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Death stands before you with this mouth wide open and would you even without blinking your eyes walk right into its jaws?

Do not waver between good and evil, between sin and holiness, between light and darkness, between belonging to the Lord and Satan. You cannot stand with one foot on one side and one the other. For they are worlds apart. One is life and the other death. None of them merges into the other. There is a clear and distinct line drawn between them.

Do you remember the first time you were so nervous and afraid to do wrong? You wanted to hide from everyone, to be in the dark. You did not heed to the still small voice telling you to flee - to flee from lusts, feel from unrighteousness, flee from the works of the flesh, flee from the wickedness and bad company. You could see well that it would all bring ruin and destruction to your life. Still you went ahead. But now it has become so much a part of you that do those things which ought not to be done as if there were the right thing to do, because you have hardened your heart. You chose death instead of life, bondage to sin instead of being free in Christ.

Now however much you try to hide the wretchedness within you and act as if all is normal, you know very well that you are rotten on the inside. You are dying because of your sin, wrong choices, pursuing fleshy desires, giving in to wilful pleasures. You want to be free but you are not willing to give up your sinful ways of life.

Beloved, now is the time to decide. Do not say, "Let me hang in there a little longer just once more". Each time hell is closing up on you and it may be too late.

Call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. Come to Him with all your hopelessness, and wretchedness like the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24) and say, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee". Seek forgiveness from the Lord and ask Jesus to be the Lord of your life. Do not look back or go to your old ways but walk in the newness of life that He gives you. Be a changed human being in Christ Jesus today.

Anyone who finds God finds life.

- Daniel O.C