Some things have the ability to take our choices from us. A newscaster making millions per year alters the details of his assignment covering a war-torn country, and he loses both his credibility and his job. A husband makes a pass at his secretary, and he loses his wife and his home. We turn our eyes from the road to pick up our phone, and our car careens into a school bus, killing three teens.
Our lives are changed, and all by a choice we made. We learn the harsh truth. Some things taken from us can never be regained.
Jude 1:6 tells us:
“And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—”
We need to ask ourselves what the angels did not. What is our proper dwelling? Are we living in the Lord, or in the world he despises?
2 Peter 2:4 reminds us:
“For…God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment.”
Why should we think we can make free with our bodies and still have God “get our back” when we fall? Choices made now will affect the ones we make in the future.
Matthew 25:41 warns us:
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’ ”
God loves us. Immensely. He desires that none should perish. However, he gives us the ability to choose. We have to live with the choices we make.
James 4:7 offers us reassurance:
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
We can make the right choices. God desires to be at our side to help us when we do. Our place in it all? We must call out unto him.
When we choose God, the bars on our lives crumble to dust, and we are free indeed.
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