We deceive ourselves into thinking we have control over all of it. Each day
is one day closer...for all of us.
The thing is - we have the one thing we do control. Choice. We all have
freedom of choice. I shake my head whenever someone gets caught with their
"hand in the cookie jar" and says, "I had no choice." Yes, they did.
Adam used that excuse, you know. Blamed it on Eve. She used the same excuse
of "no choice." Blamed it on the serpent. God cut through the excuses and
placed the blame exactly where it lay and everyone involved got a
punishment handed to them from the git-go.
Serpent started slithering, Eve would know pain in childbirth and Adam - it
really laid on his shoulders. Thorns, thistles, weeds, sweat and pain from
life's labors. And it was passed down from generation to generation all the
way to us in the here and now.
But in that straight line from 1st life to 1st sin to 1st death was God in
the thick of it all, invisible but more real than anything we humans could
even imagine. Mankind and nature (the serpent was just the beginning of
nature's sorrows) was punished but it was not all-consuming. No matter how
bad things have been for eons they have always been given a measure of His
mercy. As I mentioned - His involvement has been invisible. MOSTLY
invisible. See, though all of this creation has been punished since Eden,
He didn't - WOULDN'T - let all the punishment fall on us. He let the
totality of all punishment fall on Him. MOSTLY invisible except for a
burning bush, a pillar of fire, a pillar of smoke and a life lived in the
flesh. He walked the ultimate straight line of birth, life and death. But
His line didn't end with a period like the rest of us. His line ended with
a ; and then ! His line started up again.
So back to choice. Because He is alive AGAIN we really can't use the excuse
"I had no choice." He has negated Adam's wrong choice. We have no one to
blame for wrongs done that we do. What we can do is simply say, "I have no
excuse. It was my choice; my fault." And because He died in accepting our
just punishment He gives us another choice. We can choose . . . Him.
We can be open and honest with Him about what we are and what we've done
because He knows it all already anyway but we need to let it out so it can
all be let go and gone far, far away from us. That's only finally possible
if we make that one great choice of accepting Him and letting go of the
old, lost us. Our life is still that straight line. Birth. Life. Death. But
now, because of His choosing of us we now have a ; and soon for those who
choose Him there will be a ! and life will start again with no end,
no period - just etc etc infinity . . .
Just had to get that off my chest tonight. I was looking at the tv and not
really seeing it and these words just popped in my head. Still had the
choice not to post it but really - maybe it's not MY choice ....O:-)
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