Which Road?

Do the decisions that we make during our lives really matter? Does it matter that we decide to take one road of life over another? Each day of our lives we are faced with choices that have a long-term effect on us. These choices can determine so much in our lives and we sometimes take them as a matter-of-fact.

In the 30th chapter of the book of Deuteronomy, we read about the last time that Moses stood before the congregation of Israel and offered to them this challenge:

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30:15 - 20

So it becomes very important, what decisions we make. Whether they be a good choice or a bad choice can affect how our lives will play out. Even today, we are given this choice to make. There has developed two camps of thought in regards to how we view the world around us. One way is our traditional Christian view and the other is the competing secular view. Each one can have impact on how we see the world and each other.

In his book, " What's so great about Christianity", Dinesh D Souza writes

“Rev. Andy Alcorn, founder of Eternal Perspectives Ministries in Oregon, sometimes presents his audience with two creation stories and asked them whether it matters which one is true. In the secular account, you are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach 3 1/2 billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system and an empty corner of a meaningless universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and you will cease to exist entirely. In short, you came from nothing and are going nowhere.

In the Christian view, by contrast, you are the special creation of a good and all-powerful God. You are created in His image, with capacities to think, feel, and worship that set you above all other life forms. You differ from the animals not simply in degree but in kind. Your Creator loves you so much and so intensely desires your companionship and affection that He has a perfect plan for your life. In addition, God gave the life of His only Son that you might spend eternity with him. If you are willing to accept the gift of salvation, you can become a child of God.”

Every decision that we make in life is important. Especially in light of the upcoming Easter season, where all Christians again are called to remember the acts of Jesus upon the cross and the choices that He made that led him to it. Which road will you follow?

Praying for you as I hope that you are praying for me.

-Pastor Craig