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Choose.

There is being a line drawn in the sand.

“And Elijah came to all the people and said, ‘How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.’ But he people answered him not a word.”
-1 Kings 18:21

I was talking with a senior in high school yesterday about her relationship with God. She admitted to me, voluntarily, that she knew she was sitting on the fence again and she needed to choose.

So many people have one foot on the God-side -- worshipping on Wednesday nights, sometimes reading the Bible to know what is going on in Discipleship, praying to look holy at prayer meetings, and doing all of the above to maintain the appearance that they are on-fire for the Lord – and the other foot on the world-side – occasionally looking at pornography, lying to their parents, hanging out with “the wrong crowd,” watching movies or television shows that do not glorify God, and cursing or taking the Lord’s name in vain, doing all of the above to still fit in with their unsaved friends.
Stop trying to blend in!

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”
-Revelation 3:15-16

Choose which side you’re on! If you are going to live for God, then stop trying to appear normal to your friends, and go all out.

Stop riding the fence. If you would rather live for the world, get a temporary fix, and spend eternity in hell – Bad Choice, but at least you “had fun” while you were on the earth. If you want to live a Christian life and live for the Lord, then forsake the ungodly things of the world and live for the eternal, not the temporary – God will sustain you and you will reap an eternal reward for doing so.

Choose. It’s one or the other. God or the world. Life or death.

“…Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
-Joshua 24:15

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