As I read scripture, I continually see evidence that God created human beings to be creatures of free choice. The question that begs to be asked by each one of us: Are we making good choices?
It appears from the very beginning that God created wonderful opportunities (i.e., the Garden of Eden), but also the freedom to choose our responses to his gifts and opportunities (the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil).
Adam and Eve made a bad choice in the Garden of Eden and they forever paid the consequences for those choices. Their son Cain was faced with a similar choice once he realized that his brother’s sacrifice of animals to God was more pleasing to the LORD than his sacrifice of crops. Cain became angry and jealous of his brother, Abel and eventually killed him. (Wow … the first human family was pretty dysfunctional!)
Prior to killing his brother, the LORD reminded Cain of his freedom to choose in the following conversation: “Why are you so angry?” the Lord asked Cain. “Why do you look so dejected? You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.” (Genesis 4:6-7; NLT)
This passage reminds the Bible reader that no matter how strong the temptation for a particular sin might be … we have a choice!
Will you join me in a commitment to a year of good choices in 2008?
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