GM,

             I agree with the two points of your personal context, and I really would love to see the third one be true, that the blessed hope could be that soon.

One thing that you wrote, that I found to be very salient:

             “the Lord has allowed the possibility of a choice”

That was such a powerful statement!

 

Since the LORD put Adam and Eve in the garden, he has been giving man the possibility of choice. Adam made the wrong choice.

The LORD, by Moses, said, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life”.

Joshua told Israel, “Choose you this day whom ye will serve”.

The LORD had Gad say to David, “I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee”.

Elijah said to Israel, “How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.”

The LORD prophesied through Isaiah, “Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good”.

Even though the LORD spoke by Isaiah, “Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations”.

Yet when we hear the gospel, we are allowed to choose to repent and choose to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

The LORD has given man the privilege and responsibility to choose certain things.

We choose to sin or choose not to. We choose to believe or choose not to. We choose to repent or choose not to.

Does that make the LORD “pro-choice”? Well certainly not in the way the word choice means to people who murder little babies in the womb.

But the LORD created us with the ability to make choices, and has ordained his creation to allow us the possibility of choice (like you wrote).

 

A number of those choices we make, and how and why we make them, have eternal ramifications.

Not in choosing the blue car over the red car, but choosing good, rather than evil.

Choosing the LORD rather than the world. Choosing life rather than death.

 

                          Gino