Good Saturday morning! Hey, it takes fingers AND toes to count the degrees in our temperature this morning; it's a heat wave! Unfortunately, another cold front is due in sometime today or tonight. Of course we would choose a low around 32 during December with a nice, beautiful snowfall each night; followed by a daytime high of around 60 or 70 to melt the snow away after we enjoy it in the morning, but...we don't get to choose the weather. We could change our location, but then we would only have a different set of weather, and it wouldn't be entirely to our liking either. Much of what we experience in this world is beyond our choosing. Events happen and we may feel something about them or have some opinion on them, but the event may or may not affect us directly.
On the other hand, we have those events that do affect us directly and immediately, but we still have no choice in the matter. We may experience a reaction over which we have little or no choice, and then face a choice of how to respond, but no choice in the original event. We're starting to get more choice here! Finally, I guess on the third hand, we have those things that we have some choice to make. A friend calls and needs help; we can choose to respond or not, and how much or how well to respond. We can choose to go visit a friend, or to receive friends into our home. Sometimes in this life we have a choice to make and sometimes we don't. We can rail against the elements as our worldly friends do when things go wrong, or we can trust in God. We can put aside our own interests for a bit and spend time with a friend, or we can remain in our selfish little world and not see anyone at all. On the other... we do face a dizzying and confusing array of possible choices and responses in this life!
In the end though, it will all come down to how we chose in one important decision - did we believe in Jesus or refuse to believe in Jesus. The choice seems rather simple, a yes or no kind of thing, but so much of what we grow into, perhaps all of what we grow to become, depends on that choice. You can't put your faith into action as James tells us to do unless we first believe in Jesus through that faith. We won't receive forgiveness for our sins unless we first believe that Jesus has the authority to forgive. In so many things we wish we had a choice; in the most important thing of all - where we will spend eternity - we do!
Have a wonderful Saturday as the Good News of Jesus Christ lives in you!
Bucky
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