AT YOUR CROSSROAD!!!

Nov. 15, 2013

AT YOUR CROSSROAD!!!

CROSSROAD: The literal definition of CROSSROAD a “point where two roads meet,” but more often the word is used in a metaphorical way, to mean a situation, or circumstances that requires a choice that takes us down a path that we either want to go down, or may have some reservations in taken.

Or it could be a life changing decision, do I go to college or take my chances in The Armed forces. But today my friends as vessels chosen by God, we are going to use  CROSSROADS as a CRITICAL, or CRISIS point in each of our lives.

As Christ second coming in our lifetime is becoming more of a reality than ever before, since He left the first time telling us “I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” John 14:3

Many of our decisions from day to day are trivial and irrelevant, but some are life-changing. But The most critical decision we will ever make in this short period of probation, from birth to death that we have been given is our relationship with Jesus.

Because that decision determines our ETERNAL DESTINY. And it is when we get to that CROSSROAD is when Christ personally through His Spirit bids us to follow Him for Mark 8:34-35 tells us “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.”

And it is at that SAME CROSSROAD when Satan and his forces also makes his presentation “All this I will give you,’ …’if you will bow down and worship me.” But our response must be as our Saviors when Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only” ‘ ” (Matthew 4:8-10).

So today as you stand at your CROSSROAD there are two signs, one pointing to our Savior Jesus Christ and eternal life and the other is pointing toward a path bound for perdition. But the choice is ours. God’s Spirit will not force us to choose Jesus Christ and eternal life.

But my friends choosing our Savior can be personally painful and difficult at times, because to choose Christ we will have to carry the cross that he carried. And as we carry that cross it confronts ungodly attitudes, carnal living, and selfish motives from within that we must eliminate from our life.

But what is good about carrying that cross is, it keeps us in line with what Jesus wants’ to do in our lives. The secret of true obedience is having a close and personal relationship with God. Any other attempts to do otherwise will only amount to failure at our CROSSROAD, and takes us away from the saving grace of Christ to the road to perdition.

But once we have that AT THE CROSSROADS EXPERIENCE. We must  inject a passion that we seek daily in the abiding fellowship and love of Jesus Christ, but my friends this can only come about in Studying God’s Word while allowing a full and complete transformation from our life to the Character of Christ.

But the main point I would like to make with you today is the GOODNESS OF CHRIST,  in reaching as far as he did to pull us to Him when we were sinking deep in sin to bring us to OUR CROSSROAD which allowed us to focus on God’s saving grace, and the promises in His Word which states.

“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” Rev 22:12-14

Remember God’s Word is like a mirror to our lives. As we get to our CROSSROAD but we must realize as we look into that mirror, how far short we have fallen from the glory and purity of God and of the high standard set for us by Christ, IN FOLLOWING HIM TO THE CROSS.

So my friends if you have not got to YOUR CROSSROADS  and made a decision for Christ. time is running out Matthew tells us in Matthew 7:13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate….and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. But THE GOOD NEWS my friends is “seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,”and God will make it possible if we have faith and endure till the end.” OF YOUR CROSSROAD.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY