A Choice Plain and Simple

I am always amazed at the simplicity of the gospel. This is not to take anything away from Jesus and His majesty and Lordship but a reminder of who He really is and who we really are. The words spoken by Jesus were simple, straight to the point and transformed everything He came in contact with.

It is a cause and effect type of understanding. If we are willing to choose to do what He says, then He is obligated to provide what he has promised. I am sure there are many people who think the idea of God being obligated to do anything for a person is absurd, but it is in fact His very words that allow us to believe such a thing…… Ask and it will be given to you, Seek and you will find, Knock and it will be open for you. After all God is not a man that He should lie and He (God) is faithful who has promised.

God is not and never has been our problem. If only that were so. As the omnipotent King, He has declared that as His children we have access to His thrown always and that when we are in sin, He will reason together with us. He does not shut us out and run from us but because of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Father is ever wooing us back to a place of repentance and freedom.

So if God is not the problem then what is? I truly wish there was another answer but the truth is we are the problem. Our free will is the problem. Hasn’t it been so since Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. Our Father counts our free will of utmost importance with our ability to choose what we want. And it truly is just a choice. Not complicated but just a simple choice, a decision to choose repentance and go God’s way. And really what is repentance but a person changing his mind and deciding to go a different direction. Jesus said: Come unto me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

In His great kindness He allows us to be a part of His plans and purposes, allows us to participate in the very changing of history, and encourages us to save up eternal things by a simple choice of our will.