God is Pro-Choice

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days . . . (Deuteronomy 30:19-20).

It should surprise no one

that God is pro-choice,

that He did not create us
to render robotic obedience
to Him.

For if we could not

disobey

then our obedience

would be

meaningless.

And so,

wishing humanity

to willingly

return His love,

He made a strategic,

yet risky

decision

at our creation.

He let us choose

whom we will serve,

whom we will love,

whom we will obey.

Choices, of course,

carry consequences.

The consequence for

a lifestyle of obedience
to His laws:

Amazing, incomprehensible
grace and forgiveness
for sins committed,
and His inexplicable welcome

to intimately know Him,

in this life,

and in the one which lasts

forever.

The consequence for

a lifestyle of disobedience,
of rebellion against Him:

Inevitable and dreadful judgment
for sins committed,
and desolate, unending

separation from Him

in this life,

and in the one which lasts

forever.

Which is why He pleads with us:

Choose wisely.