Choose

Rom 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Only grace saves us. The law cannot save us. The law reveals our inability to save ourselves. All we can do is choose to be saved by another, or not.  That's right, we get to choose. You're NEVER forced to be saved not even close. You won't be cajoled, you won't be coerced, you will not be tricked. You are invited, you are entreated, you are asked, but never in a intrusive forceful way.  You might say that there are PEOPLE who have tried to force you into believing, and I wouldn't dispute with you over that. People will try all sorts of things in all sorts of ways, but other than revealing the truth and letting others decide for themselves Christ does not advocate more. He tells His disciples to go and preach, but to do the following when not wanted--

Luk 9:2  And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

Luk 9:5  And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

He did not say stay and try to convince them, and force them to receive you.  More than once Paul in his many, many journeys was run out of town.

Forcing the truth on someone, or TRYING to force the truth on someone is ludicrous.  If you succeed in forcing the truth on someone it would be false in their hearts through your force. The force makes it something against their will.

That's why any religious fanatics or organizations which orders people to believe in their religion is crazy, because they cannot force the heart even if they can force lying words of acceptance to their beliefs. And any religion whose God wants to just hear words and not have heart conviction is a very screwed up religion. No true God would care about lying words of conversion forced from someone. That God would appear to be in it solely for the numbers game and not true, freely given love at all.  Force is an attribute of Satan, not God.

Yes, God is a consuming fire.

Yes, God will judge all.

Yes, God is love and all who are not of God are not love.

Our CREATOR loves us.

Our CREATOR has a right to us and yet He allows us to CHOOSE whether or not we will belong to Him, willingly, lovingly. 

Our CREATOR the giver of our breath of life has the right to that breath, it belongs to Him.

Why would our CREATOR want to allow any of us to live in a world of pain, sorrow, sin, anguish, depravity, selfishness, heartache, and that's what we'd be asking Him to let us do if we choose to NOT be His and still want to live eternally. We'd be asking God to let us live a life of horror, of sin forever and ever and NO Creator, NO LOVING CREATOR would want that for His creatures.  His offering eternal life on the condition that we make the choice to LOVE HIM and OTHERS and HATE SIN (even though our flesh longs for it), is LOVE. We don't have to choose SIN, and DEATH eternal. We make the choice.

Two paths.

Love and Sin.

If we choose the path of sin no matter the reason, we've condemned ourselves to eternal death, to eventual nothingness, to being no more.

We choose.

The law reveals love, but the law doesn't save us, only Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God sacrificed for us, our Creator/Redeemer taking on flesh and suffering, dying in the flesh- He alone has the right to save whom He will.

We choose life or death.

We are all given a choice.

By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior, may we choose life in HIM, by HIM!

AMEN.