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Choose Life

I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life.  Deuteronomy 30:19

 

Before the space shuttle program, American ships and helicopters would recover astronauts whose tiny space capsules had parachuted into the enormous sea. The astronauts would be lifted out of their capsule into a helicopter, which would then fly them to the safety of the ship.

I often thought, as I watched these scenes on television, how like God this operation was. God hovers over the entire world, seeking to pluck from sin those immortal souls in danger of drowning in Hell. He tosses out a line to all those who are in trouble. Some grab on to God's line and freely receive the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. They are pulled to safety and, eventually, taken to Heaven.

But others ignore the line or even knock it away, believing they are not really in peril or that they can make it to safety on their own. Tragically, they are lost not because God has rejected them, but because they have rejected God.

Don't make the wrong choice!

From, HOPE for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions, by Billy Graham.