For so long I have heard of the eternal struggle for my soul. I have heard that God and satan are battling to get you to their side for eternity.
Joshua 24:15
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 understood this thousands of yrs ago. It is a choice. Nothing more nothing less.
God has stated His case. Satan has made his.
You are the decider of your own fate. You are the final say so in your final destination.
God compels none, but offers freely to all who will call upon the name of the Lord.
Satan wants all to perish with him that none will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus.
Satan uses lies, deception, and cheap thrills. God leaves it up to you.
He paid for your sin, your rebellion.
John 3:13-21 KJV
I know that God wants me with Him, i know satan is trying to subvert God and make it so that I am not. I know God died for me, satan is a trickster and a liar. I know God is true just honest and pure, I also know satan is the exact opposite who is working against the Father.
However, this eternal struggle is such that it comes down to a very simple thing: Choice.
Yes Choice and that choice is yours. That choice is the whole of the struggle. your choice, your allegiance, your loyalty, your support. For by not choosing the one you DO choose the other.
By ignoring the pleadings, the nudgings of God you are actively choosing satan and his side.
Choosing God, coming to salvation,through the blood of Christ, is also a choice. None can make it but you.
This understanding, this knowledge, this simple act says it all.
Your Choice.
All that happens around you, to you, is a choice someone has made. You choose to get up, to go or not go to church.
To sing and pray or not to sing and pray.
Everything you do or do not do is a choice.
Joshua 24:15
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 understood this thousands of yrs ago. It is a choice. Nothing more nothing less.
God has stated His case. Satan has made his.
You are the decider of your own fate. You are the final say so in your final destination.
God compels none, but offers freely to all who will call upon the name of the Lord.
Satan wants all to perish with him that none will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus.
Satan uses lies, deception, and cheap thrills. God leaves it up to you.
He paid for your sin, your rebellion.
John 3:13-21 KJV
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Your Choice
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