Choices
“Pay close attention! Come to me and live. I will promise you
the eternal love and loyalty that I promised David.”
Isaiah 55:3
Free Will
Why waste
your money on what really isn’t food?
Why work
hard for something that doesn’t satisfy? Listen carefully to me,
and you
will enjoy the very best foods.
Isaiah 55:2
In Isaiah 55:22,
the Lord is asking us to listen to His words.
The
Word of the Lord is life itself. He is asking us in this passage to listen to
life and to shift our gaze unto what really matters.
The
physical aspect of desires in life does not matter. They will leave us empty
and hungry. But the Word of the Lord would keep us fulfilled and nourished;
this is because the words of the Creator have power and greatness over life
itself. These were the words that made us who we are. These are the words that
made our world, our universe.
The
Lord gives us this fulfillment to life freely, yet why do we seem to remain
unfulfilled? This is because of free will. The Lord doesn’t force us to do
anything for He has given us the freedom to choose our paths.
Free
will gives way to love. That is why every human being has it. Even though the
Lord could have just ordered His creations to obey, love, and respect Him, He
didn’t do that. Why? Because doing that wouldn’t be real love. In order to
attain real love, He has shown us an example by giving us free will. We have to
willingly choose Him in order to love and understand Him.
He
tells us to look at what really matters. But what does matter? What matters are
our choices. Our choices are what determine the path we go through. Our choices
determine our direction. Our choices can either lead us to Him or away from
Him. Our choices matter.
He
says, “Come to me and live.” He is welcoming us into His arms and asking us to
go back to Him. But in the end, our choices will decide where we will be. Free
will was given to us because in order to love, we must have to decide to choose
love. He has promised us love but in order to understand this love we must
choose it ourselves.
In
the end our choices define us, because it determines if we live the life He has
promised us or if we live the life we don’t deserve.
In
truth, we don’t deserve God’s love. But, we need God’s love. We will always
need Him in our lives. Even if we don’t admit it, or even if we don’t believe
it. We will always need God in our lives, no matter what happens.
But
even though we need Him, there will always be free will. We will be the ones to
decide what we truly want to do.
So
what do you choose? Because I choose life. I choose Him.
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