Freedom of Choice
The freedom of choice is not only an important value to God, but it is a major key to success in our Christian walk. God wants everyone to be saved. “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3, 4).
Yet the Lord still permits everyone to have free choice. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
We find over and over in the Bible that God gave others the freedom to accept or reject Him. He permitted Satan to choose to rebel against Him. He also permitted Adam and Eve to choose disobedience. Cain and Abel were free to reject God’s sacrificial system, and Cain eventually turned from the Lord. The apostle Paul understood this innate freedom when he wrote: “I discipline my body … lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27).
Righteousness is never a locked-in, programmed provision that takes me to heaven no matter how I live, even if I do not want to go. Choice means I’m always free to change my mind. That’s why Jesus asks me to choose Him and to reaffirm my choice every single day.
It’s impossible to really love without freedom to choose. Love cannot be forced or it is not love.
If my daily choice is for Him, He will change me and make me like Him and, eventually, take me into His kingdom. But remember, I am free to turn and go another direction at any time. God will not force me. My daily choice to serve Him is very important. Jesus said, “whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17).
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15
The freedom of choice is not only an important value to God, but it is a major key to success in our Christian walk. God wants everyone to be saved. “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3, 4).
Yet the Lord still permits everyone to have free choice. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
We find over and over in the Bible that God gave others the freedom to accept or reject Him. He permitted Satan to choose to rebel against Him. He also permitted Adam and Eve to choose disobedience. Cain and Abel were free to reject God’s sacrificial system, and Cain eventually turned from the Lord. The apostle Paul understood this innate freedom when he wrote: “I discipline my body … lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27).
Righteousness is never a locked-in, programmed provision that takes me to heaven no matter how I live, even if I do not want to go. Choice means I’m always free to change my mind. That’s why Jesus asks me to choose Him and to reaffirm my choice every single day.
It’s impossible to really love without freedom to choose. Love cannot be forced or it is not love.
If my daily choice is for Him, He will change me and make me like Him and, eventually, take me into His kingdom. But remember, I am free to turn and go another direction at any time. God will not force me. My daily choice to serve Him is very important. Jesus said, “whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17).
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15
Freedom of Choice
The freedom of choice is not only an important value to God, but it is a major key to success in our Christian walk. God wants everyone to be saved. “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3, 4).
Yet the Lord still permits everyone to have free choice. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
We find over and over in the Bible that God gave others the freedom to accept or reject Him. He permitted Satan to choose to rebel against Him. He also permitted Adam and Eve to choose disobedience. Cain and Abel were free to reject God’s sacrificial system, and Cain eventually turned from the Lord. The apostle Paul understood this innate freedom when he wrote: “I discipline my body … lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified” (1 Corinthians 9:27).
Righteousness is never a locked-in, programmed provision that takes me to heaven no matter how I live, even if I do not want to go. Choice means I’m always free to change my mind. That’s why Jesus asks me to choose Him and to reaffirm my choice every single day.
It’s impossible to really love without freedom to choose. Love cannot be forced or it is not love.
If my daily choice is for Him, He will change me and make me like Him and, eventually, take me into His kingdom. But remember, I am free to turn and go another direction at any time. God will not force me. My daily choice to serve Him is very important. Jesus said, “whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17).
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15
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