Critical choices - Introduction
“Don’t be misled – you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit” (NLT) Galatians 6:7-8
Our life from the cradle to the coffin is made of the cumulative choices we make in our pilgrimage. The choices we make daily range from the mundane to the sublime, from the inconsequential to the consequential, from the reversible to the irreversible.
Choices such as when to sleep, what food to eat, what clothes to wear etc. are largely mundane and inconsequential, and though what one eats can impact one’s health, the outcome of that is reversible in the short term.
However, there are some choices we make that have everlasting consequences. The impact of those choices outlives us and the generation that comes from our lineage can be affected by those choices we made centuries ago.
The choice of who to serve (worship), how to spend your time, and who to marry, are three critical choices that almost every person has to make. They are critical because it will eventually determine where we will spend eternity.
In subsequent devotionals, we will examine each of these three critical choices and see how the Manual of Life, the Holy Bible can guide us to make these critical choices well to reap the full benefits for ourselves and our children’s children.