June 4, 2014
AT THE CROSSROADS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS!!!
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Matt 7:13-14 (ESV)
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 Christ.
“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.” Matt. 16:24 (NIV) And it is at our CROSSROADS where Satan makes his presentation “All this I will give you,’ …’if you will bow down and worship me.”
So today the signs, are pointing but in opposite directions, one points to Jesus Christ and eternal life and the other is pointing toward a path bound for perdition. God’s Spirit will not force us to choose the more difficult path which leads to life eternal. DECISIONS, DECISIONS, if I just wait a few years things will get better I am almost out of school.
I will be getting married next month and then I will have a husband or wife to help me make that decision, or maybe 
you just got that big promotion at work and things are really looking up. But my friends all of that is irrelevant when it comes to our salvation and the choices we need to make at this moment.
“After 14 years of studying the Bible, William Miller (1782-1849)–a U.S. revivalist who predicted the second coming and earned a large but temporary following of 50,000-100,000–became convinced that Christ would return in 1843. When Miller announced April 3 as the day, some disciples went to mountaintops, hoping for a head start to heaven.
Others were in graveyards, planning to ascend in reunion with their departed loved ones. Philadelphia society ladies clustered together outside town to avoid entering God’s kingdom amid the common herd. When April 4 dawned as usual the Millerites were disillusioned, but they took heart.
Their leader had predicted a range of dates for Christ’s return. They still had until March 21, 1844. The devout continued to make ready, but again they were disappointed. A third date–October 22, 1844–was set, but it also passed. (Today in the Word, MBI, December 20, 1991.)
So by all accounts it seems we don’t really have to make any drastic decisions right now about our salvation. It has been a subject for debate for thousands of years, God will understand if I wait. My friends I don’t think Christ will ever give us a pass about our Salvation.
Paul tells us “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, YET WITHOUT SIN.”Heb 4:15-16 those three words tells us that what God understand is He made a sacrifice on Calvary so now your CROSSROAD DECISIONS must be all about our choice to live a life centered on our Savior’s needs not ours.
“He stands at the door of our heart and knocks” You are AT THE CROSSROADS and He knocks. You may even turn your
back on Him because you just have to many exciting things that you have planned but He still knocks. The main point is God loves us and He is reaching as far as he can to pull us to Him as we stand at OUR CROSSROAD and focus on God’s saving grace, and the promises in His Word.
Also choosing our Savior can be personally painful and difficult at times, because at our CROSSROAD if the path we choose is Christ then we will also 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 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.”SALVATION AND LIFE ETERNAL IS OURS
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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