I Will Choose...

My current favorite Steven Curtis Chapman song "Faithful" has a line in it that I think exemplifies Christianity. "I am choosing to believe You are faithful..." Everything about what we believe is based on us making a conscious choice to believe what God tells us; that He is who He says He is. God goes as far as showing us everything we need to know and then stops. He says to us, "There it is, that's who I am, that's what I want you to believe. What will you choose?" He then leaves it to us to decide whether or not we will take Him at face value. He's never claimed to be other than what He is, the God of the universe; Perfect and Holy. He's never asked more than we are willing to give Him but what He wants is our whole lives. He wants us to choose to give Him everything, our whole lives; heart, mind and soul. We need to make a choice to believe what He tells us and accept what He offers or NOT; but choosing to not believe and accept will cost us everything. So do we choose to believe and give God everything OR do we choose to NOT believe and lose everything?

Of course, in giving God everything, we gain so much more than we give up.

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This post was written by hand, shortly before the sermon Sunday morning attached to this post, its a nice connector.