Choices and ONE IMPORTANT DECISION

This particular posting will be harder and more painful than the others. It will be coming from a place of pain and heartache. You know that place inside that hurts when the news comes that a loved one or friend has died. There are no words that can take it away, but only help to handle or deal with it better. I found myself going into the book of Deuteronomy to help with the grief part of the pain. Grief can overtake you during this painful time and it will open the door to other ills such as depression and abundant sadness to come in and take over. So I went to The Holy Word to see what God said and then perhaps I could help someone who may need it. The Bible is such a GOOD BOOK that I can't make decisions and choices without KNOWING what IT says. So I search its pages and find wisdom for the difficulties in this life, and this is one at this time. I was led to Deuteronomy 34: 1-12 and there I see that Moses is about to die and that the children of God will have to grieve. Verse 8 states that they wept for Moses 30 days and the days of weeping ended. So we weep for our loved ones and then it is time to move on. It will be a process that has a place where it will be time to move forward. Until that time, there will be crying and weeping for the presence that will no longer be there.  This is the hurting part. It will take time to go through this part and we should be aware that it is normal to have this sadness, it hurts inside so much and there is nothing you can take or do to ease this kind of pain, only comfort it. In Joshua 1 , It was time to move on, after grieving for Moses,  and God told Joshua to raise up and take these people over  the Jordan and into the land I am giving them. What a loving God we have to know that HE doesn't leave us in the place of pain and heartache called grief, but moves us forward into newness and promises. This blog is entitled: CHOICES and ONE IMPORTANT DECISION and it is about the choice and the decision we make as we live. The choice and decision I want to zero in on is the most important one that will guide you as you live and certainly upon your death. That decision will be found several places in THE HOLY WORD, lets stay in Deutronomy and go to chapter 30 and examine it there first. Verse 15-20 states what the choice is:  life and good, death and evil (15 kj). Further down in verses 19-20 it is plain: God is speaking through Moses and He says" I call Heaven and Earth to record (witness) this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and cursings,  therefore choose life that thou and thou seed may live". He sets the choice before us, giving us free will to choose what we want, then because He loves us so much (John 3:16),  He tells us to choose life and the blessings that come with this choice. Thats like taking a multiple choice test and the teacher telling you which answers to select. Choose Life, Choose Life, Choose Life!!  The other choice is death and cursings,  why the hell would you choose that on purpose??? That is exactly what you do when you don't choose life.  Verse 6, a bit earlier in the chapter,   God says He will circumcise the heart and the heart of the seed  to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul,  that thou may live. There is a call on all of us and Jesus says in the new Testament to not harden your heart when you hear His voice. Then in Deuteronomy 30:20, to love Him and obey His voice (He is speaking, shhh listen!!) and cling to Him,  He is our Life and the Length of our days, as we dwell in this land of the living. A decision for Christ is a choice to live.  The Bible says this to all, ALL of us, and it is a whosoever decision.  Fast forward to the New Testament and the decision God made to send His Beloved Son into this world  to save us. This precious sacrifice without spot and blemish  came into this world to save us, not condemn us, John 3:16-17. Verse 18 makes it plain and clear, those that believe on Jesus  is not condemned but those that don't believe are already condemned. There again is our choice and it is most important to make the correct choice.  Your life depends on this IMPORTANT DECISION.  Perhaps you know all this, wonderful, this posting is not for you, I want those that don't know this and have not made a decision for Christ to read and at the very least ask questions and seek answers about God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, Eternity, what happens next, how ever you want to term it,  but ask someone.  It is a life question, eternal life, because this is not the end and this life is not final.  We are ALL going somewhere(?) after this stop.  John 14:1-3, Jesus is speaking and He tells us " Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God believe in Me also,  In my Father's House are many mansions....., I go and prepare a place for you .......and I will come and receive you unto myself that where I am, there you may be also" Why is Jesus telling us to believe in Him also?   Because to get to God,  we will have to go through Jesus. John 14:6  Jesus says "I am The Way, The Truth, The Life: no man can come to the Father but by ME".  This is the ONLY way. The CREATOR of the universe said this is How it will be. No other god created anything so they can't tell you how to get to Heaven or any place else for that matter. The MAKER OF EVERYTHING gave us the information we will need to get to HIM, and He put many messengers in our midst to tell us what He said.  Be quiet and listen HE will speak to your Heart if you want Him to (Hebrews 11:6). Finally precious person, not all will accept the call.  In John 14:22 Judas (not the betrayer, the other Judas) ask Jesus why He wont manifest Himself to the whole world and only to them,  Jesus' answer was a telling one and almost bonechilling: verse 23-24 says Jesus answered and said "If a man love me,he will keep my words and My Father AND I will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not.... " So this sounds like there will be some who wont accept Jesus, when they hear the call and this is why they wont hear His words and follow Him. John 17, Jesus was praying to the Father before His betrayal, and I want to zoom in to verse  9 in the prayer. He says to God that He is not praying for the world, but for those that God has given Him, they belong to God and Jesus was praying for those only. It is sad to think that our Saviour was trying to be our Saviour in life and our choices and decisions that we freely made prevented that and as a result when it is time to go, (we don't know from one minute to the next what will happen), our future isn't assured.  My friend don't let this happen to you!!  Make a choice while there is still breath in your body to pray the prayer of faith  and be saved,  Romans 10:9-10. It is the ONLY way!!!  The Pursuit Church welcomes you and all your questions concerning this topic. We are a part of the body of Christ and we want all hungry and thirsty seekers of Christ to join us as we walk this walk together.  MAKE A CHOICE!!!! MAKE AN IMPORTANT DECISION !! GOD BLESS THE READER!! Jesus is LORD!!  I love you!!! Deuteronomy 30, John 14. John 17,  Romans 10:9-10.