BEACH RUGS

CHOICES
Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
There is a lot to choose from out there, man has made God very complicated as though we are left to figure out God by our own reasoning. After Jesus died on the cross and before he ascended to heaven he said, I must go away so the comforter can come, that is the Holy spirit. With Christ in us we are given the ability to understand who He is and who we are. We are mighty in Christ, problems accrue when we place our own agendas over the truth of the word of God, when this happens man ends up with a golden calf and a religious spirit. A religious spirit produces judgment and judgment produces separation. The world tends to judge God by the actions of “religious” men as though God had anything to do with their foolishness. The lord loves you and wants a relationship with you, a personal relationship. In that relationship He will point out what is sin in your life and guide you into a more fruitful life. Please remember that it is not your sins that sends you to hell, Christ paid for your sins on the cross, but rather it is ones rejection of the Lord and His grace, God will never send someone to hell, people make that choice for themselves.
If you have not accepted Christ into your heart please do so, it doesn’t take any special prayer or anyone to lead you just a desire to be with the one who loved you first.

We all make choices. Sometimes wisely, sometimes not. God gives eternal choices, and these choices have eternal consequences.

That's what happened at the cross. There were two other crosses on the hill that day, the day that Jesus died. Two criminals, suffering the same death. And those two crosses remind us of one of God's greatest gifts: the gift of choice. One chose Jesus; the other merely mocked him. Scripture reveals a compelling part of the story. (in Luke 23:39-43).

When one dying criminal prayed, Jesus loved him enough to save him. And when other mocked, Jesus loved him enough to let him.

He allowed him the choice.
He does the same for you.

(from the book "He Did This Just for You" by Max Lucado)
ISBN: 0-8499-1683-6