IS JESUS RELEVANT TODAY? - PART 8

  IS JESUS                         RELEVANT TODAY? 

                                               PART 8

   (copied from 
    Y-Jesus,com)

You Choose The Ending

We continually make choices, what to wear, what to eat, our career, marriage partner, etc., It is the same when it comes to a relationship with God.

Author Ravi Zacharias writes:

"Jesus' message  reveals that  every individual .. comes to know God, not by virtue of birth, but by a conscious 
choice to let Him have His rule 
in his or her individual life."

Our choices are often influenced by others. But in some instances we are given the wrong advice. On September the 11th 2001, 600 innocent 
people put their trust in the wrong advice and innocently suffered the consequences. The true story goes 
like this:

One man who was on the 92nd floor of the south tower heard a jet crashing
into the  north tower. Stunned by the explosion he called the police for instructions on what to do. "We need 
to know whether we need to get 
out of here, because we know there is 
an explosion," he said urgently on the phone.

The voice on the other end advised him not to evacuate. "I would wait until further notice "All right," the caller said, "Don't evacuate." He then hung up.

Shortly after 9 am another jet crashed 
into the 80th floor of the south tower, nearly all of the 600 people in the top floors of the south tower perished. 
The failure to evacuate the building, 
was one of the day's greatest 
tragedies. 

Those 600 people perished because they relied on the wrong information that was given by a person that was trying to help. The tragedy would not have happened if the 600 victims 
were given the right information. 

Our conscious choice about Jesus is infinitely more important than the one facing the ill-informed 9/11 victims. Eternity is at stake.We can choose one of three different responses:
We can ignore Him. We can reject Him. Or, we can accept Him.

The reason why people go through life ignoring God is that they are too busy pushing their own agenda.  Chuck Colson was like that.
 At age 39, Colson occupied
 the office next to the 
president of the United 
States. He was the              
"tough guy" of the 
Nixon White House, the
"hatchet man,"  who could 
make the hard decisions. Yet, in 
1972, the  Watergate scandal ruined his 
reputation and his world became unglued. 
Later he writes:

"I had been concerned with myself. Ihad done this and that, I had succeeded and I had given God  none of the credit, never once thanking Him for any of His gifts to me. I had never thought of anything being 'immeasurably superior' to myself, or if I had in fleeting moments, thought about the infinite power of God, I had not related Him to my life."

Many can identify with Colson. It is easy to get caught up in the fast pace of life and have little or no time for God. Yet ignoring God's gracious offer of forgiveness has the same dire consequences as outright rejection.  
Our sin debt would still remain unpaid.

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