No one just says, “I think I’ll get saved today,” then really does it. Salvation is the work of God in the life of an individual, but an individual is required to believe. This believing is more than just some robotic activity, it is a chosen response to God’s grace.

Life is filled with choices, some far more consequential than others. There are a few that are of major consequence.

There is the choice of whom you will serve. Even after one is born again, he must daily and constantly choose to esteem Jesus as the absolute Lord of his life.

There is also the choice of how you will live. The quality of one’s life has very much to do with the daily decisions he has made up to now. This is true in one’s economic, physical, and emotional state of being. People who esteem Jesus as the Lord of their lives, have every reason to expect to live better than those who do not. This is not to say that Christians do not encounter problems, but Christians have been given every thing necessary for life and godliness, whereby we have received great and precious promises.

Then, there is the choice of what you will do today. Perhaps there is no greater lie than the one we tell ourselves about what we are going to do, later. The difficulty with doing important things today, is that it requires a certain brokenness. It requires breaking away from what we have been doing. We might say it requires crucifying our flesh and the passions that go along with it.

In Deuteronomy 30:19, the Bible speaks of life and death, blessings and cursings being set before people. Then, it says, “Choose life, that you may live…”